What the hell is this?
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- kpl0
ooh. he got you there!
Long live Jason_X! Master Debater!
- neeko0
"Master Debater"
hehe.
- unknown0
"They never have done business with these people"
sorry to piss on your self righteousness:
- unknown0
Macromedia also has embargoed countries to which they are not allowed to supply goods......as far as I am aware this is a stipulation for all trade by US enterprises with certain countries.....
- Blofeldt0
I'm currently using my new DELL to design wepons of mass destruction, and then i'm going to export it to North Korea.
- aryk0
It is all because of the trade embargo the US has against those nations. Even free stuff cannot be distrobuted there.
Recentally Yahoo! got in trouble for allowing Saddam's brother to have a free email address.
- unfittoprint0
who gives a f**k about software embargo... as long they have kazaa...
- sp0
and, it does have a lot to do with encryption software and policies.
it is common knowledge that any software or hardware that makes use of encryption can not a) be imported into the US or b) exported from the US.
it has to do with national security.
take PGP for example. if you want to download PGP, and you live outside the US, then you have to use an alternate web site that is hosted outside of america.
now, there are plenty of loopholes - because i can go to pgpi.org and download pgp freely and i live in the midwest.
i have not had any black suits beat down my door yet. but really it isn't about one citizen using encrypted software, it is about products and information being used in a 'wrongful' way.
it has been like that since software licensing began. nothing has changed about it - except what countries are on the list.
- unknown0
I da' Master De Bater. Kinda funny. No that dude tried to make seem like a liar, yet I never did. Just a jerk.
- unknown0
it has a lot to do with business as well man, you cannot sit here and tell me that it is all encryption security. What about all the shit you go through with those same countries where you are not to spend a cent or visit them. Also PRINTED on passports, but then again your average Yankee doesn't have one or hasn't even been outside their own state let alone another country. What a joke this is.
- DL0
"The taliban have used photoshop to create weapons of mass distruction"
heheheh... nice one sexypixel