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by sdfjkl 4523 days ago
This export rule nonsense can be bypassed, as demonstrated successfully by Phil Zimmerman[1], who ended up getting crypto legislation changed. Also in a similar case about European laws that prohibited bypassing DRM, the developers of CloneCD moved their development to Antigua[2] (and named the new company Slysoft).

Coursera, please investigate such avenues of bypassing this nonsense.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_in... [2] http://www.myce.com/news/Elby-announces-that-CloneCD-emigrat...