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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
- Subject: Re: [news.admin.policy] Re: Groups used to distribute illegal material
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.081008.27299@aston.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Aston University
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- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 08:10:08 GMT
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- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) writes:
- :
- : From: brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor)
- : Newsgroups: news.admin.policy
- : Subject: Re: Groups used to distribute illegal material
- : Date: 13 Aug 1992 18:38:50 GMT
- : Message-ID: <16ea7qINNg7u@network.ucsd.edu>
- :
- : I too am concerned about the content of some of the groups. It is not
- : the bandwidth or moral issues that are the problem, but that indeed
- : there are copyright violations taking place.
-
- As other people have pointed out this issue has nothing really to do
- with the sexual explicitness (or otherwise) of the material.
-
- :
- : I could wish that the pictures being sent took up less of the network
- : bandwidth and disk storage, but the answer to that is better data
- : compression, storage, and retrieval methods, not restricting posting.
- :
- : I believe that we who maintain the news software should be able to treat
- : the material passing through our sites as though we were solely a
- : carrier - much like the telephone system, UPS, and other common
- : carriers. In that manner, our site would not be liable for illegalities
- : committed by users of the system, since we do not assume to restrict
- : their posting content.
-
- And also presumably protected from (in a similar way) to unlawful interception
- and such like?
-
- : However, I do believe that anyone posting copyrighted material to the
- : net in violation of that copyright can, will, and should be liable to
- : the copyright owner. That's only fair.
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