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- From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
- Subject: Re: a.b.p.e. distribution
- Message-ID: <BxvKG8.73s@unix.amherst.edu>
- Organization: Elitist Usenet Administrators, Stuff & Nonsense Division
- References: <1992Nov16.154122.25324@news.columbia.edu> <1992Nov16.214125.4303@clarinet.com> <1992Nov16.232911.6987@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:21:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.232911.6987@news.columbia.edu> dan@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Daniel Zabetakis) writes:
-
- > My point is that a.b.p.e isn't harmful to pornography publishers. That
- >is my opinion, and I will defend it. I would argue it to the publishers if
- >they cared.
-
- Big news for you, dude. They don't.
-
- >I suggest that if you aren't harming anyone, then what you
- >are doing is OK. Do you want to argue with that statement?
-
- Fine by me. Try telling it to the judge.
-
- >>They do care. They sued Event Horizons, a dirty-GIF BBS, and won big time.
- >
- > You willfully misread this event. Unless I am very wrong, EH was claiming
- >ownership of the images, and threatening other BBS's. It makes perfect sence
- >to me that Playboy would sue.
-
- Gosh. I thought that that didn't hurt pornography publishers. Why on
- earth would they sue?
-
- >>They do think it does them harm and it is not up to us to decide whether
- >>it causes them harm.
- >
- > I deny this (the first sentance). I believe they do not think usenet is
- >causing them harm, or they would have taken action before.
-
- There's such a thing as waiting to enact a suit until a legal climate
- favors a particular injunction, you know.
-
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