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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Your Rights under the 1976 Copyright Act
Message-ID: <4859@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 15 Nov 90 00:56:15 GMT
References: <2653@ttardis.UUCP> <1990Nov9.210351.23551@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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In article <1990Nov9.210351.23551@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Desdinova) writes:
> In article <2653@ttardis.UUCP> rlw@ttardis.UUCP (Ron Wilson) writes:
# #Don't get me wrong, I greatly despise censorship.  However, distribution of
# #this kind of information is illegal.  The very existence of the NET depends
# #on not being perceved (sp?) as a "den of thieves".  The same "corporate eyes"
# #to whom you want to prove your point might just decide to use archives of
# #articles on the NET to file law suites against contributors to the NET.  While
# #those people would certainly deserve the consequences thereof, the resulting
# 
# #bad publicity would hurt EVERYBODY on the NET.
#   SOME PEOPLE OBVIOUSLY THINK WE LIVE IN THE UNITED SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC.
# This, this nation is the United States of America, and if there is one thing
# that is sacred above ALL ELSE is freedom of thought and freedom of information.
# There is NOTHING illegal about describing how to remove copy protection from
# programs.  The copyright law guarantees that posessors of software are entitled

# Jawaid Bazyar               | Blondes in big black cars look better wearing

Indeed.  This is America.  You can sell books that tell you how
to build automatic weapons.  The Progressive magazine ran an 
article titled "How to build an H-bomb", and the courts didn't
prevent it.  There's certainly nothing illegal about telling
how to break copy protection.  (Not yet, at least).
-- 
Clayton E. Cramer {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer
"Meat is murder!"  "Dairy is rape!" -- Animal Liberation Front  
Fine, then antibiotics are genocide!
You must be kidding!  No company would hold opinions like mine!