From: cactus@bb.hks.net (L. Todd Masco)
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 94 18:23:35 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: A Chance Encounter with Brad Templeton, of ClariNet
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In article <199411220020.QAA08980@netcom6.netcom.com>,
Timothy C. May <tcmay@netcom.com> wrote:
>* I shrugged, and said that, longterm, copyright was dead as we know
>it today. I pointed out that dozens of Cypherpunks-style remailers are
>operational, including many in Europe and elsewhere.
>
>* Brad: "Then they'll be outlawed." 
>
>* "And what about the non-U.S. sites?," I asked. He had no good
>answer...

This is why GATT bothers me.  Once we have have an alignment of property
laws, particularly IP laws, there's no telling how things will fall.

It's a bad set of failure modes.

>* Brad also expressed the view that the recently passed Digital
>Telephony Act would "force" remailer operators to make their traffic
>available to the proper authorities.

Brad's very wrong.  The Senate hearings were very explicit on this
point: Internet providers (as well as people like AOL and Compuserv)
are exempt from DT requirements.
-- 
Todd Masco     | According to the US dept of Justice Stats, 3.98% of the US
cactus@hks.net | population is in prison, the highest count in the world. We
cactus@bb.com  | live in a police state and are lulled by notions of normalcy.