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- Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
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- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [news.admin.policy] Re: Groups used to distribute illegal material
- Message-ID: <9208132141.AA03036@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Originator: daemon@eff.org
- Sender: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu
- Nntp-Posting-Host: eff.org
- Organization: EFF mail-news gateway
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 11:41:17 GMT
- Approved: usenet@eff.org
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- From: karlr@think.com (Karl Rotstan)
- Newsgroups: news.admin.policy
- Subject: Re: Groups used to distribute illegal material
- Date: 13 Aug 1992 20:30:19 GMT
- Message-ID: <16egorINNdl7@early-bird.think.com>
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- In article <stantbat.713725545@vincent1.iastate.edu> stantbat@iastate.edu (John S Sinnott) writes:
- >An interesting question was brought up: Is it defensible to allow access to
- >a newsgroup that distributes illegal material. The example given was one
- >of the alt.sex.picture groups where copywrited material is often posted.
- >
- >I think that we can all agree that the burden of proff is on the person
- >making the accusation. Just which picture is copywritten, and is being
- >posted without perrmission. To my knowledge, there has never been a case
- >involving an adult magazine publisher suing a BBS or network because of
- >.gif files.
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-
- I read (in Boardwatch I believe) that a bbs on the west coast which created
- the "Maxipics" famous to those who view porno gifs is in the process of
- being sued by Playboy or Penthouse for precisely this reason. Apparently,
- the magazine discovered that "Maxi" had been harassing various BBS's for
- posting his "copyrighted" scanned gifs without giving him any money.
- The magazine did a little "turnabout is fair play" against him. I have no
- further information about this, but would be interested in seeing some
-
- karl...
-