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From: donw@zehntel.zehntel.com (Don White)
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Subject: Re: C
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Date: 12 Jan 90 20:51:53 GMT
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In article <7698@nigel.udel.EDU> new@udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
>In article <1435@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> cinglis@cs.strath.ac.uk writes:
>>Failing that does anybody want to discretely send me a copy of Lattice C V5.04
>                                   ^^^^^^^^^^  ?? real bright, dips**t
>>or Manx C (wot ever the latest version is). Please dont flame me about piracy
>>as I couldnt care less.
>>Craig Inglis.
>
>I suspect (hope) you'll get flamed whether you want it or not.  
>Also, this very message
>may be illegal and subject you to crimial prosecution for conspiresy (sp?).
>(I'm not a lawyer, so I may be wrong, of course.)  I certainly do hope that
>Lattice and/or Manx can get a search warrant to check you house/business

     1. If anybody WAS going to send it to him. You may have stopped them.
     Sending it is MUCH more easily prosecuteable than soliciting. Inglis
     could always say he never DREAMED anyone would take him seriously. 
     But, if he had this compiler in his posession...
     Do you suppose that you might have thwarted a sting on this guy?

     2. If his home or property were searched, and it was not done in proper
     accordance with the law, YOU might be prosecuted for complicity.

     3. Lastly, since you called him a dips**t, and most everyone knows exactly
     what you meant, you may be liable for slander. You also called him a 
     pirate. He never ACTUALLY said he did any pirating. He just said he didn't
     care. If intent were all that was important, you would be up for a murder
     rap.

     4. I've noticed that there are some people on this net who LIKE STARTING
     FLAME WARS. Did it occur to you that this fellow may just be bored? He
     may have been sitting thinking "Bored bored bored. What can I do? Oh, 
     yeah! I can start another piracy discussion!!!..."

     And you had to take him up on it. Great going blabbermouth.

     "Sheesh" - Calvin and Hobbes, 1989