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- From: dan@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Daniel Zabetakis)
- Subject: Re: a.b.p.e. distribution
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.220937.7292@news.columbia.edu>
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- Organization: Columbia University, Dept. of Biological Sciences.
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:09:37 GMT
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- In article <BxvKG8.73s@unix.amherst.edu> twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov16.232911.6987@news.columbia.edu> dan@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Daniel Zabetakis) writes:
- >
- >>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.
- >
- Good, so you carry a.b.p.e? I'm not asking any judge to carry the group.
-
- >> [about Event Horizons] 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?
- >
- Don't be snide. Claiming ownership is clearly different from freely
- distributing. I claim that free distribution doesn't harm the publishers, but
- transfer of ownership would.
-
- >>>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.
-
- Then why haven't they pursued a case against other pay BBS's? We need more
- than just the suggestion that they object to stand against the complete
- failure of the publishers to pursue this. It may change in the future, of
- course.
-
- DanZ
-
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