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- Xref: sparky alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk:2561 misc.legal:15987 alt.censorship:6927
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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: Groups used to distribute illegal material
- In-Reply-To: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu's message of Thu, 13 Aug 1992 18:04:58 GMT
- Message-ID: <CKD.92Aug13144843@loiosh.eff.org>
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
- References: <BsxH08.GE8@mtholyoke.edu> <1992Aug13.180458.9340@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 18:48:45 GMT
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- Carl> == Carl M. Kadie <kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu>
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- Carl> In my opinion, it is ok to exclude a newsgroup if it is illegal.
- Carl> I think this position is supported by library policies. They say
- Carl> that 1) laws should be obeyed 2) legal advice should obtained
- Carl> from compete sources 3) restrictive laws should be challenged
- Carl> (with legal means) 4) and that challenged material should be
- Carl> given due process.
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- I might note that there is probably *also* a proportion of copyrighted
- material in the alt.binaries.pictures.misc group (and that the whole
- purpose of the alt.binaries.* hierarchy is to allow the *WHOLE THING* to
- be easily blocked for reasons of disk space, transfer bandwidth, and/or
- copyright problems).
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