Re: Question for any old pirates/programmers

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

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), or threatened
(the guy from Princeton who documented the "hold the shift key down while
inserting a CD-ROM" technique), or generally harassed.

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