Short note on new Laws

["Stout, Bill" <StoutB () pios com>]

You legal types on this security list tell me if this is true:

---Digital Millennium Act of 1998 ---
(Passed Senate, in House for review) see http://thomas.loc.gov/, search
for 'Digital Millennium Act'.

Makes many security tools, services or discussions (even this list)
illegal in that:

"No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide or
otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device,
component, or part thereof that"
...
"is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a
technological protection measure that effectively controls access..."
"`circumvent a technological protection measure' means to descramble a
scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid,
bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological protection
measure"
______________

Makes firewalls (or firewall at ISPs) illegal in that:

"(b) SYSTEM CACHING- A service provider shall not be liable for monetary
relief, or except as provided in subsection (i) for injunctive or other
equitable relief, for infringement for the intermediate and temporary
storage of material on the system or network controlled or operated by
or for the service provider: Provided, That--"
...
"(4) such material is transmitted to such subsequent users without
modification to its content..."
"(6) such service provider does not interfere with the ability of
technology associated with such material... "

Bill Stout