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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: <9208141532.AA00344@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Originator: daemon@eff.org
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- Organization: EFF mail-news gateway
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 05:32:45 GMT
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- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Newsgroups: news.admin.policy
- Subject: Re: Groups used to distribute illegal material
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.073924.19954@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 07:39:24 GMT
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- jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
-
- >As a news administrator for a site relatively new to the Net, I have
- >recently been giving _much_ thought to the issues surrounding certain
- >controversial newsgroups.
-
- ...
-
- >However, while I think that it is easy to demonstrate that merely
- >controversial material such as the postings to alt.sex.bondage and
- >similar groups should not be restricted, much of the material posted
- >to alt.binaries.pictures.erotica is _illegal_ and therefor quite hard
- >to defend. (The illegality of this material stems from the fact that
- >much of it is distributed in violation of copyright -- this means
- >that it is illegal not only in the U.S., but in most of the world.
- >There are other legal issues around the occasional depictions of
- >bestiality and child pornography, but these appear to be rare enough
- >that they are not as much of an issue.)
-
- Just as a point of reference a local commercial BBS is in the process
- of being sued by Playboy for charging for GIF scanned from their
- magazine. And the attempted "defense" that the BBS didn't scan them
- doesn't impress Playboy at all...
-
- --
- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
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