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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PKZIP version 1.10 and data encryption
Message-ID: <1990Mar28.080100.27077@uwasa.fi>
Date: 28 Mar 90 08:01:00 GMT
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>In article <KPETERSEN.12576936709.BABYL@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>, w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) writes:
>> Well folks, we have a new development - it seems the latest PKWare
>> ZIP/UNZIP version 1.10 cannot be distributed on the international
>> networks (Internet, Usenet, BITNET, EARN, etc), because it contains
>> data encryption technology.  Federal law prohibits the export of such
>> technology from the USA and Canada.
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>> By the way, you might tell your BBS Sysop that he or she may be in
>> trouble if the BBS has callers from countries other than the USA and
>> Canada and they download PKZ110.EXE.  The same goes for CompuServe and
>> GEnie.
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This may spell serious trouble for the net community, since the US
federal law does not apply in Europe.  The US and international
lawyers may be in for a field day (yet again).  And, when are the
superpowers including USA and Canada going to realize that the flow
of information is not easily controllable in the modern free word. 
Or are all the telephone lines from Europe to all US and Canadian
BBSes going to be cut or monitored.  What are you going to do, when
the version with encryption is distributed in Europe, as it is bound
to. 

When SEA sued Phil, the symphaties of the community (mine included)
were with Phil.  But now Mr Katz and US stipulations are causing
serious strife.  This is very unfortunate, indeed. 

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Prof. Timo Salmi        (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun