At 12:08 PM 7/16/99 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I was wondering if its illegal for me to offer export restricted
>software for download on my website. The software in questions,
>is created and distributed inside USA, its illegal to export it
>out of USA. Now, since this already happened, is it illegal for
>me to continue offering downloads from my server located in Denmark?
Danish law probably doesn't care what the US thinks about it.
And US law doesn't apply to non-US-citizens in Denmark.
The real question is whether there are any Danish laws against
exporting crypto, and whether they apply only to physical exports
or also to publishing information on your web site.
The US government has been trying to convince everybody else
to ban crypto exports - the cooperative structure is left over from
back when there were Communists, and NATO and its friends
wanted to make sure Communists couldn't get militarily useful technology.
Now the only Communists left are a few mayors in Italy,
but computers have made cryptographic technology cheap and fast,
and the real agenda of government control becomes more obvious.
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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