Use a Firewall, Go to Jail?

[Jeremy Fowler]

Not a joke. The zdnet article was posted March 31, 2003, 5:00 AM PT and the one
on the Register was Posted: 28/03/2003 at 16:48 GMT.

It's the MPAA that's be hide it all. They're the corporate support and they're
the ones who "think" they will profit from it - because they "think" it will
hinder piracy. Or at least make it easier to find people who are pirating
movies. Obviously their lawyers didn't consult their IT department before they
wrote that bill. Those guys are even worse than the RIAA.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of zscoundrel
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 10:40 AM
> To: Jim Herrmann
> Cc: KCLUG
> Subject: Re: Use a Firewall, Go to Jail?
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> That's funny. Check the date of yesterday and think about it.  WHY would
> someone actually LOBBY to get a law like this passed?  Where is the
> profit motive?
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> If it were the federal government, the laws would be pre-emptive at the
> FEderal level and the states would not be involved.  Got to be an April
> Fools joke!
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> Jim Herrmann wrote:
> > Have any of you heard about this issue, and know if it is based in
> > reality or paranoia?  It's sound totally assinine and unenforcable, but
> > I thought I would ask.
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> > Discuss,
> > Jim
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> > Use a Firewall, Go to Jail?
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> > "The states of MA,TX, SC, FL, GA, AK, CO, & TN are preparing to consider
> > bills that apparently are intended to extend the national Digital
> > Millennium Copyright Act...bills would flatly ban the possession, sale,
> > or use of technologies that 'conceal from a communication service
> > provider...' Your ISP is a communication service provider, so anything
> > that concealed the origin or destination of any communication from your
> > ISP would be illegal - with no exceptions. If you send or receive your
> > email via an encrypted connection, you're in violation, because the 'To'
> > and 'From' lines of the emails are concealed from your ISP by
> > encryption...Worse yet, Network Address Translation (NAT), a technology
> > widely used for enterprise security, operates by translating the 'from'
> > and 'to' fields of Internet packets, thereby concealing the source or
> > destination of each packet, and hence violating these bills. Most
> > security 'firewalls' use NAT, so if you use a firewall, you're in
> > violation."
> > http://freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000336.html
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> A marble traveling at 22,000 miles per hour would strike with as
> much force as a 400-pound safe traveling at just 60 miles per hour.
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