Fw: Freedom to Tinker: Use a Firewall, Go to Jail

Fri Mar 28 14:56:56 UTC 2003

>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" <dfeustel at mindspring.com>
To: <misc at openbsd.org>
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
>
>