From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 95 13:20:14 PDT
To: cypherpunks
Subject: Intellectual Property and Crypto collision
Message-ID: <9509172020.AA23349@toad.com>
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> ELECTRONIC MEDIA PROTECTED UNDER COPYRIGHT LAW
> A presidential task force has recommended that electronic transmission of
> books, magazine articles and software should be classified as copies
> subject to existing copyright laws.   The task force also recommended that
> it should be illegal to make or distribute products aimed at decoding
> encrypted software without the consent of the copyright owner. 

Would this make it illegal to produce tools for decrypting key-escrowed
software?   :-)

	John