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The DCMA (Digital Copyright Millennium Act) is a nasty little piece of legislation for many reasons; here’s yet another (thanks to Paul at The Rub for the tip off). Bills have been proposed in Texas, Massachusetts, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alaska, Tennessee, and Colorado which would make illegal any technology which conceals from ISPs the place of origin or destination of any piece of communication. There goes your encrypted email. Oh, and if you have a firewall, or use pretty much any OS developed in the past half-decade, you’ll be in violation. Lets just hope that the EUCD doesn’t decide to follow suit
Who do these people consult when drafting legislation? Given the EU/UK tradition of following the US in these matters, we should probably start faxing our MP now…
Posted by Jack at 6pm on 30.03.03
Well this is about one of the top 10 dumb things I’ve ever seen in my lifetime, Cancelization of this in a hurry would be recommended.
Posted by zeroskillz at 1pm on 01.04.03