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>From another mailing list; Not being from the US, I have very little idea if this is a reality based simply on this story... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Feustel" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 1:31 PM Subject: Freedom to Tinker: Use a Firewall, Go to Jail > Use a Firewall, Go to Jail > > The states of Massachusetts and Texas are preparing to > consider bills that apparently are intended to extend the > national Digital Millennium Copyright Act. (TX bill; MA bill) > The bills are obviously related to each other somehow, > since they are textually similar. > > Here is one example of the far-reaching harmful effects of > these bills. Both bills would flatly ban the possession, sale, > or use of technologies that "conceal from a communication > service provider ... the existence or place of origin or > destination of any communication". Your ISP is a communcation > service provider, so anything that concealed the origin or > destination of any communication from your ISP would be > illegal -- with no exceptions. > > http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000336.html > >
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