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- From: wingo@apple.com (Tony Wingo)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: The Gestapo and you (was Re: Copyrights and piracy...)
- Message-ID: <wingo-290792103247@zardoz.apple.com>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 17:37:56 GMT
- References: <14ft2fINN7ik@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <1992Jul21.180343.4066@newstand.syr <7722@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>
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- In article <7722@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>, linley@hougen.seas.ucla.edu (Bruce
- Linley) wrote:
-
- >
- > What about putting that original copy of word on a network where n number of
- > people can launch it simultaneously?
-
- This is usually explicity disallowed by the license agreement, unless
- special arrangements are made witht he vendor.
-
- >What about renting software?
-
- What about it?
-
- >As as for the
- > point about it being OK to videotape broadcast TV shows because they ARE being
- > broadcast over public airwaves, tell me please, why has the federal gov't ruled
- > that it is ILLEGAL to intercept cellular phone calls with a scanner?
-
- Because they decided that in one case there is "a reasonable expectation of
- privacy" and it the other there isn't. Correctly, IMHO.
-
- >These
- > calls travel over public airwaves. (If it's passing through my skull, I have
- > every damn right to be able to listen in.)
-
- Only if you have a microwave receiver implated in your skull.
-
- -tony
-
- >>usual disclaimer<<
-