Phil,
What happens to your court case when Commerce issues
its letter?
And for those of us who came late to crypto law, when did
you initiate your suit?
Which gives me a chance to say many thanks to you, and Dan
and Peter, for educating the rest of us not only in how to
effect crypto policy
At 03:19 PM 02/03/2000 -0800, Phil Karn wrote:
This is one of the sloppiest and misinformed judicial opinions I've
read in a long time. ...
I read the hearing transcript and the judge seemed particularly impatient
with the defense attorneys. There was the business about the defense
attorneys
Brad kemp wrote:
It was interesting to note that the judge stated that
'DeCSS, or some version of it, contain programmer's comments,
"which are non-executable appendages to lines of executable code"...
Such comments are protected by the First Amendment'
Does this mean the it is legal to post
Judge Kaplan has issued his Memorandum Opinion in
the DeCSS MPAA v. 3 suit in New York:
http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/courtweb/pdf/00-01149.PDF
We offer an HTML version:
http://cryptome.org/dvd-mpaa-3-mo.htm
Judge Kaplan aims at settling the code as expression
dispute, citing Bernstein,
