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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: <1992Aug17.083854.27604@aston.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 08:38:54 GMT
- References: <9208141932.AA01621@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu>
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- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) writes:
- :
- : Newsgroups: news.admin.policy
- : From: neuhaus@vier.informatik.uni-kl.de (Stephan Neuhaus (HiWi Mattern))
- : Subject: Re: Groups used to distribute illegal material
- : Message-ID: <neuhaus.713788374@vier>
- : Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 10:32:54 GMT
- :
- : Hi.
- :
- : This does not mean that anybody should read (private) email, by the
- : way. Once a service like mail is offered, it must be available in a
- : secure and unoppressive manner. For example, I believe it's OK for a
- : University or company to cancel certain newsgroups, but students or
- : employees must not be punished for reading any group once it's
- : available, and tracing who reads which newsgroups must not be done.
-
- I would go further and say that anyone who traces who reads what group,
- or reads private e-mail or files should be punished. Unless they have
- a VERY good reason for doing so.
- Crackers are crackers, werther they have legit system privs or not!!
-
- :
- : In direct answer to the original poster, I believe you should not
- : play God yourself and simply cancel the groups. You should ask for an
- : official policy, if only to get your head out of the sling. If you
- : cancelled newsgroups at your own will, that would be arbitrary and
- : despotic, even if those groups carried copyrighted or otherwise
- : illegally published material.
-
- I think it is clearly implicity in all copyright law that the 'person'
- to deal with the case is the copyright owner.
- Your duty as a third party is to inform them and do nothing else
- unless (and until) they actually ask you.
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