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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Re: A Europe-aware mail-order software place?
Message-ID: <1991May31.163531.28182@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 31 May 91 16:35:31 GMT
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In article <1746@west.West.Sun.COM>, Angus.Fox@UK.Sun.COM (Angus Fox) writes:
|> In article <675640814.3@blkcat.FidoNet> 
|> Charlie.Mingo@p4218.f421.n109.z1.FidoNet.Org (Charlie Mingo) writes:
|> > but if your shipment is seized and confiscated by US Customs, don't 
|> > say you were never warned....
|> 
|> I'd like to see US Customs stop an international 'shipment' of 
|> software from comp.binaries.mac.
|> 
|> Just goes to show what a farcical situation it is. Anybody in the world 
|> can mail me the DES algorithm or I can go to my local library and buy a 
|> book on how to implement it.
|> 
|> But its illegal to export the US version of SUM (not picking on Symantec - 
|> just an example) to me here in the UK. Who exactly is being protected here.
Surely not the hardware / software manufacturers, who must really
hate the fact that they are forced to sell at double the price in
Europe. At least Apple's UK pricing is now alleged to be more in
line with US pricing.
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu