SSSCA clarification

Tue Oct 9 00:41:47 PDT 2001

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rodney K" <pepe65 at hawaii.rr.com>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 3:02 PM
Subject: [luau] re: SSSCA clarification

> > Even if these foreign
> > countries don't have these laws, this doesn't stop the US government
from
> > raiding teenager's houses in Norway as the case of the teenager who
created
> > DeCSS.
> >
>  Really? on what grounds? I didn't think that US laws apply to foreign
> countries.
>

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/02/04/1133241&mode=thread
This is perhaps the best page to help one learn about this incident.