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1995-07-13 - Re: Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of 1995 (fwd)

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From: “Robert A. Hayden” <hayden@krypton.mankato.msus.edu>
To: “Brian A. LaMacchia” <bal@martigny.ai.mit.edu>
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UTC Datetime: 1995-07-13 16:19:32 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 13 Jul 95 09:19:32 PDT

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From: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@krypton.mankato.msus.edu>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 95 09:19:32 PDT
To: "Brian A. LaMacchia" <bal@martigny.ai.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of 1995 (fwd)
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On Thu, 13 Jul 1995, Brian A. LaMacchia wrote:

> What worries me is the first sentence: "each act of distributing
> software is considered a predicate act."  It's not clear to me whether
> this applies to (a)(1) unlicensed software or (a)(2) encryption programs
> (or perhaps both).  Notice that (a)(1) says "transfer" not "distribute".
> Perhaps the act of putting Alleged-RC4 on a FTP site is one act and
> mailing a copy to Cypherpunks is another act.  That might be two
> distributions and thus two predicate acts.

Of course, when you mail it to the cypherpunks list, the program goes to 
500+ people, sot hat's 500+ acts.  And who knows how many people connect 
to the FTP site, but everybody on the internet COULD connect, so that's 
40,000,000 acts.  Welcome to a 6x6 cell with a roommate named Bubba that 
wants to make you his wife.

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