Re: Thanks for the downloading help!

To: mattj@indiana.edu
Subject: Re: Thanks for the downloading help!
From: pyb@silogic.fr (Pierre-Yves Bonnetain)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 96 09:05:48 GMT
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960319084908.12995B-100000@juliet.ucs.indiana.edu> (message from matt jackson on Tue, 19 Mar 1996 09:00:41 -0500 (EST))

> 
> But you might be interested to know that recent court decisions have 
> stated that placing something in RAM is making a copy.  And a bill is 
> just coming out of committee in Congress that would strengthen copyright 
> law to the point where simply browsing through the Web reading documents 
> (without saving or printing them) could be considered copyright infringement.
> 
   That's fine for me, as long as the legislative entities passing such bills
find a way to make people _pay_ for those so-called copies in RAM (that's the
point of copyright, huh ?).
   I propose to widden the scope of the bill to computers used for
transit of such documents. This is because access providers are richer than
the average guy, and a good case could bring millions in copyright infrigments.
   That way, we will quickly return to the good ol' times when we were working
with paper and pencil (yeah, I'm a stockholder of paper and pencil 
manufacturers :-).
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Thanks for the downloading help!

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