http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/1541230&tid=103
Passed in Michigan. The texas bill doesn't seem to make it illegal to use anonymizing software, only to import/export it w.r.t. the state (i.e. download it, or offer it for download), sell it, advertise, distribute (even within the state), sell or lease it, manufacture (develop?) or assemble it (since a communication device can be software this seems to correspond to compiling it or maybe even installing it). Penalties are mild for one device, but for 2 it's prison, and for more than 50 (a project download server?) it gets really serious. California, host of both the freenet project nonprofit and sourceforge, has not introduced it so far apparently, but if it gets that far I would strongly urge that we relocate the project nonprofit corporation to another state or another country (good luck finding one that won't eventually pass something like this... I expect the EU will eventually mandate it if it goes well in the US, and then I'll be fucked), and look for alternative hosting. -- Matthew Toseland toad at amphibian.dyndns.org/amphibian at users.sourceforge.net Full time freenet hacker. http://freenetproject.org/ Freenet Distribution Node (temporary) at http://80-192-4-36.cable.ubr09.na.blueyonder.co.uk:8889/X3QtN7zNCUg/ ICTHUS. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20030401/9c6b0a96/attachment.pgp>
