[UA] America by Prime Time (was Greetings)

[Epoch]

On Wed, 16 May 2001, Timothy Toner wrote:

> >   I thought that some 'subversive' titles like "The Anarchist's Cookbook"
> > were
> >   illegal to sell in the US?
> >
> > That's an urban myth.  It is legal to sell books about anything in this
> > country unless they commit slander, then it's still legal but you may have
> > to proove your actions in court.
> 
> Not entirely true.  There's some bozo-no-no's, like child pornography, and,
> oddly enough, anything that would assist you in cracking digital encryption
> (a la the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, which threatens to blow the
> concept of fair use out of the law books).

Are you sure that's till the case with the encryption thing?  A lot of the
sillier encryption laws were relaxed last year -- you can export strong
encryption, for example.

Mike

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