[Grapevine-cvs-commits] cvs: website / index.php

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blackh		Thu Aug 14 14:59:49 2003 EDT

  Modified files:              
    /website	index.php 
  Log:
  Add note about ACCOPS law.
  
  
Index: website/index.php
diff -u website/index.php:1.66 website/index.php:1.67

--- website/index.php:1.66	Wed Jul 30 16:06:14 2003
+++ website/index.php	Thu Aug 14 14:59:49 2003
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
-<!-- $Id: index.php,v 1.66 2003/07/30 23:06:14 blackh Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: index.php,v 1.67 2003/08/14 21:59:49 blackh Exp $ -->
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
   <head>
     <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> 
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
     <div id="rightCol">
       <?php include("title.inc"); ?><br />
-       by <a href="mailto:st...@bl...">Stephen Blackheath</a> - Updated 31 Jul 2003<br />
+       by <a href="mailto:st...@bl...">Stephen Blackheath</a> - Updated 15 Aug 2003<br />
       <p>We are creating an anonymizing storage network - a network that resembles the World
       Wide Web, but is capable of allowing people to publish and retrieve information without
       fear of censorship or surveillance.</p>
@@ -73,6 +73,19 @@
       <hr width="100%" size="1" />
 
       <h3>News</h3>
+
+      <p><b>15 Aug 2003 - ACCOPS law</b></p>
+
+      <p>It seems the proposed new ACCOPS law (click <a href="http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/CONYER_069.txt">here</a> for text of law) in the USA is making a sort of attempt to crack down on
+      software like the Grapevine.  <i>Enabling software</i> is defined as <i>"software that,
+      when installed on the user's computer, enables 3rd parties to store data on that
+      computer, or use that computer to search other computers' contents over the Internet."</i></p>
+      <p>By this (excessively broad) definition, the Grapevine is fairly certain to be enabling software.</p>
+      <p>The law doesn't ban such software, but says it is illegal to "knowingly offer enabling
+      software" for download if they do not "clearly and conspicuously warn any person
+      downloading that software, before it is downloaded, that it is enabling software and
+      could create a security and privacy risk for the user's computer".
+      I have certainly done this.</p>
 
       <p><b>14 Jun 2003 - Version 1.0.5 released / Network up and running again / Network plots</b></p>
       <p>I have made some significant performance improvements to the Grapevine executable,



