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- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
- Subject: [news.admin.policy] Re: Groups used to distribute illegal material
- Message-ID: <9208141535.AA00396@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 05:35:58 GMT
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- From: wengler@ee.rochester.edu (Mikey)
- Newsgroups: news.admin.policy
- Subject: Re: Groups used to distribute illegal material
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.140516.13020@ee.rochester.edu>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 14:05:16 GMT
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- In article <BsxH08.GE8@mtholyoke.edu> jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
-
- >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.)
-
- Aren't virtually all of the image-distribution groups violating
- copyright? Aren't most distributing images which have been scanned in
- from copyrighted material?
-
- It is not clear to me why you single out pornographic groups for this
- charge.
-
- SImilarly, the other image groups use similarly large proportions of
- resources.
-
- You probably need to take a uniform policy toward all image groups on
- the basis of copyright or resource use if you don't wish to be involved
- in censorship.
- --
- My situation is hopeless, wengler@ee.rochester.edu
- but not serious. weng@uordbv (bitnet)
- ur-valhalla!wengler
-