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- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [news.admin.policy] Re: copyright == illegal ????
- Message-ID: <9208191449.AA25514@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Originator: daemon@eff.org
- Sender: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu
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- Organization: EFF mail-news gateway
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 04:49:23 GMT
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- From: rmz@ifi.uio.no (Bj|rn Remseth)
- Newsgroups: news.admin.policy
- Subject: Re: copyright == illegal ????
- Message-ID: <RMZ.92Aug19114654@maud.ifi.uio.no>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 10:46:53 GMT
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- > Nope. it's not clear. If Playboy doesn't sue it's probably bacause it's
- > not cost-effective. Proving who did the posting will be difficult, even
- > if the message isn't anonymous. Nothing becomes legal, or ethically right,
- > just because you've found a way to do it in an anonymous manner.
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- I thought the "innocent until proven guilty" principle in western
- legal thinking was designed to take care of this. If what you are
- doing doesn't bother anyone, then you are innocent even if some law
- prohibits it.
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- "Guilty in the eyes of god" and similar principles are not what the
- law is built on.
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- --
- (Rmz)
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- Bj\o rn Remseth !Institutt for Informatikk !Net: rmz@ifi.uio.no
- Phone: +472 453466!Universitetet i Oslo, Norway !NeXTmail: rmz@neste.ifi.uio.no
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