[ale] those of you reading this while within US jurisdictionshould have a care....

[Geoffrey]

Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> Isn't it illegal to read certain books in muslum fundamentalist
> societies?  Rusade? (sorry, bad memory)?  We call them religeous fanatics 
> and crazies for saying what people can read, write and think but now the
> DMCA does it to us on a technical front?  Not sure I like where that
> comparison is going.

For those who are interested, you can read the text of the DMCA at:

http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/hr2281_dmca_law_19981020_pl105-304.html

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> Thus spake Geoffrey (esoteric at 3times25.net):
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>>Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:37:51 -0400
>>From: Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net>
>>To: ALE <ale at ale.org>
>>Subject: Re: [ale] those of you reading this while within US jurisdiction
>> should have a care....
>>
>>Can anyone else think of any other situation where you can be arrested 
>>simply for reading a document???
>>
>>Jim Popovitch wrote:
>>
>>>A very good read:
>>>
>>>"The patch itself is on the Red Hat site, on this page, and the oddity here
>>>can be seen if you go down to the bottom. Under the heading "references"
>>>there is a link to http://www.thefreeworld.net/non-US/. At this point, 
>>>those
>>>of you reading this while within US jurisdiction should have a care"
>>>
>>>Full Article:
>>>http://www.theregus.com/content/4/26656.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>-- 
>>Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net
>>
>>I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
>>to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?
>>
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> :wq!
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> Robert L. Harris                
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> DISCLAIMER:
>       These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
> FYI:
>  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?


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