[thechat] US criticised over Muslim checks

Ken Kogler ken.kogler at curf.edu
Fri Oct 4 10:41:08 CDT 2002


> This is not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about circumstances
> where an event takes place in country X, with the main agent being a
> citizen of country X.  This event is legal in country X, but illegal
in the
> US. When the agent enters the US, s/he is arrested.

Dimitri Sklyarov and his e-book decryption software come to mind. He
wrote the software in Russia for his Russian company, and was arrested
when when he visited Las vegas for a conference. Stupid DMCA.

LOTS more here: http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Elcomsoft/

--Ken




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