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Old July 20th, 2001, 10:54 PM

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Default Re: OFF TOPIC - The IOC sucks.

Another case of "cultural imperialsm" in progress. Take a look at www.boycottadobe.org for information on this bizarre "intellectual property" fiasco. Adobe has got the FBI to arrest a Russian programmer for publicly speaking about the flaws in Adobe's "encryption" in it's secure PDF products. It's not encryption, it's stupid kiddie tricks like rot-13 and XORing. But for pointing this out, and for working for a company in RUSSIA outside US jurisdiction that sells products which can break this encryption, they got him arrested and apparently plan to press charges. This is the infamous DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) at work. Would be interesting to see the reaction if European nations started arresting Americans who had violated their laws. Let's start with the privacy laws that give Europeans some control of their personal information. Any officer of just about any US corporation could be arrested and jailed for violation of those...

Can't wait to see the US govt. spokesdroids puff up and hiss like a cats if that happens.
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