[WEB4LIB] taking prisoners in the e-book war

[Tony Barry]

At 12:33 PM -0700 23/7/01, Eric Hellman wrote:
>This is spooky. MY government is tossing a programmer in JAIL for 
>enabling legal access to information.
>
>FBI Arrests Programmer in Las Vegas for eBook Software;
>   Russian Distributed Tool that Increases Purchasers' Control of eBooks
>http://www.eff.org/effector/HTML/effect14.15.html

What is worse is that what he did was legal in the jurisdiction he 
did it in, Russia. But he gets arrested and charged under a US law 
when he enters the US.

The same logic would enable the Taliban in Afghanistan to arrest any 
US woman entering their country because they don't wear a veil when 
they are in the US.

It would allow China to arrest any US citizen entering their country 
who published material in the US which would be regarded as seditious 
in China.

etc. The world is going mad.

Tony
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