Re: Question for any old pirates/programmers

[russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew T. Russotto)]

In article <474223ce$0$14104$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
Andy McFadden  <fadden@fadden.com> wrote:
>Matthew T. Russotto <russotto@grace.speakeasy.net> wrote:
>> Cracking and the promulgation of cracking _tools_ is illegal.
>> Discussion of the techniques is not yet illegal.  How you can
>> distinguish a technique from a tool in the world of software is an
>> open question.
>
>Ay, there's the rub.
>
>"No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or
>otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component,
>or part thereof, that [does the stuff we used to do]."
>
>People were getting sued for discussing techniques (Sklyarov),

To be fair, Sklyarov was arrested for writing the code, though he was arrested
_when_ (or just after) he was discussing it.  And he was not tried,
and his employer was found not guilty.
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