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1996-11-11 - Re: WebTV a “munition”

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From: iang@cs.berkeley.edu (Ian Goldberg)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 01fbbdf9ce2e59cfa5098f427e5a6ef420596d27657669b7b35fdeee08d67cb3
Message ID: <568952$6fv@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-11-11 22:26:53 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 14:26:53 -0800 (PST)

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From: iang@cs.berkeley.edu (Ian Goldberg)
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 14:26:53 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: WebTV a "munition"
In-Reply-To: <3283A25B.1D6E@ix.netcom.com>
Message-ID: <568952$6fv@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu>
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In article <199611091610.LAA00420@pdj2-ra.F-REMOTE.CWRU.Edu>,
Peter D. Junger <junger@pdj2-ra.F-REMOTE.CWRU.Edu> wrote:
>As far as I know, the only person convicted of shipping cryptographic
>devices outside the U.S. without a license was guilty of shipping a
>satellite TV descrambler to Latin America.  So there is some sort of
>precedent.  (And, of course, no First Amendment problem.)

I had heard of this before, but it's odd, because the ITAR says that
among items _excluded_ from the munitions list are items:

121.1 Category XIII(b)(1)(viii):
Limited to receiving for radio broadcast, pay television or similar
restricted audience television of the consumer type, without digital encryption
and where digital decryption is limited to the video, audio or management
functions.

so it would seem a sattelite TV descrambler is not a munition.

   - Ian

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