SA Government's Crypto Registration Up And Running

orange writes "Anyone who supplies crypto products to South Africans (and the government defines crypto as almost anything) has to register with the appropriate agency and pay a ZAR2000 fee (US$200). Failure to supply South Africans without being registered means potential jail time (How they're gonna get you unless you come to South Africa is another story). A copy of the legislation can be found can be found online."

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use it against the MPAA and RIAA!

[tps12]

This sounds like a terrible law, but it may have a good effect. The MPAA and the RIAA are crypto merchants, since they use schemes like CSS and CD copy protection to try to screw over their customers. But under this law, they should have to pay South America! It'll be nice to Hillary Rosin rotting in prison in Buenos Aires!

Re:How are they going to get you?

[slipgun]

Which is why the European arrest warrant is so dangerous. I don't know if it made the american papers, but about 6 months ago there was a row because some Brits, on holiday in Greece, had been handed down sentences of about a year for... planespotting. Now, if they had made it back to Britain, Greek's extradition request would have been lauged at. But because of the wisdom of Our Great European Leaders, any British citizen could now receive a knock on the door at 3am and be hauled away to Greece to face the charge of planespotting. The British Courts would have no say in it, and the fact that planespotting is perfectly legal in Britain is irrelevant.

(No offence intended to Greeks, just using this to highlight the dangers of the European arrest warrant).

Never Assume

[jasonditz]

that a foreign government can't get you if they really want to.

I'd advise everyone to do a little reading on a man called Gerhard Lauck.

He was/is an avowed neo-nazi who published material relating to his distasteful belief system in the United States (where it is of course perfectly legal, if considered bad form). He exported some of this material to Germany, where it is considered a serious crime.

Obviously the U.S. wouldn't extradite him, because freedom of the press is so important, but unfortunately for him while travelling in another country he was picked up by German authorities and pretty much smuggled acrossed the border to Germany, where he spent several years in prison.

Re:How are they going to get you?

[User 956]

Remember, this is the same country whose leader believes that HIV does not cause AIDS. Their leaders (and by default, government) are quite obviously insane.

This, of course, in stark contrast to our country, whose leader believes that Africans should, under no circumstances, be educated about how AIDS is spread.

This is the same man that believes, down to the letter, in a book that says women and unborn children are property, among other ridiculous assertions