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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
- Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
- Subject: Re: [news.admin.policy] Re: Groups used to distribute illegal material
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.082721.27476@aston.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 08:27:21 GMT
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- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) writes:
- :
- : 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
- :
- : In article <BsxH08.GE8@mtholyoke.edu> jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
- : Aren't virtually all of the image-distribution groups violating
- : copyright? Aren't most distributing images which have been scanned in
- : from copyrighted material?
-
- Maybe I sould see if the scanned record sleeve I found is still arround.
- and maybe tell the record company concerned.
- The boss of it might just invite the perpertrator ballooning :-)
- :
- : 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.
-
- But that would take an axe away from the poor censors, :-)
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