1996-07-24 - Would Netscape take money for ‘exported’ copies?

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From: Arun Mehta <amehta@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1996-07-24 23:03:21 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 07:03:21 +0800

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From: Arun Mehta <amehta@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 07:03:21 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Would Netscape take money for 'exported' copies?
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At 22:13 23/07/96 -0400, Anonymous Remail Service wrote:

>As I have said before, European & other foreign users, who get the strong-
>crypto version should pay Netscape what they owe Netscape, to keep the ITAR
>as the issue, and not piracy. 

Yes, but could/would Netscape even take our money? Wouldn't  that be
complicity (IA obviously NAL)? I'd imagine they'd just return the
money, and tell
us to please destroy our copies of the software.

Arun Mehta Phone +91-11-6841172, 6849103 amehta@cpsr.org
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