From another mailing list;
Not being from the US, I have very little idea if this is a reality based simply on this story... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Feustel" <dfeustel@mindspring.com> To: <misc@openbsd.org> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 1:31 PM Subject: Freedom to Tinker: Use a Firewall, Go to Jail
Use a Firewall, Go to Jail
The states of Massachusetts and Texas are preparing to consider bills that apparently are intended to extend the national Digital Millennium Copyright Act. (TX bill; MA bill) The bills are obviously related to each other somehow, since they are textually similar.
Here is one example of the far-reaching harmful effects of these bills. Both bills would flatly ban the possession, sale, or use of technologies that "conceal from a communication service provider ... the existence or place of origin or destination of any communication". Your ISP is a communcation service provider, so anything that concealed the origin or destination of any communication from your ISP would be illegal -- with no exceptions.