Xref: utzoo rec.music.synth:17123 comp.sys.apple2:8483 comp.sys.amiga:71681 comp.sys.mac.misc:5750 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:3659 misc.legal:22610 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!biostr.biostr.washington.edu!kraig From: kraig@biostr.biostr.washington.edu (Kraig Eno) Newsgroups: rec.music.synth,comp.sys.apple2,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,misc.legal Subject: Re: Do *NOT* reveal or mention "hacking" information (was Re: paper clip trick) Message-ID: <11071@milton.u.washington.edu> Date: 14 Nov 90 00:45:27 GMT References: <2716@polari.UUCP> Sender: news@milton.u.washington.edu Organization: University of Washington Lines: 34 >>>system owners will pull the plugs on the NET. >I really doubt that, since most of the major links in the NET are either >supported by companies which have already realized what a pain in the ass >copy protection is to the LEGITIMATE PURCHASERS of their product, or by >major educational institutions which have always been the bastions of >free speech. Most of the major educational institutions I know of are actually run by people who do not see things quite that way. The people who approve the megabuck computing budgets do NOT tend to smile upon less-than-honorable uses of the mainframes here, and have several times squelched activities that they deemed to be inapropriate or superfluous. So I guess what I'm saying is, you can go ahead and post your "how to subvert copy protection" messages and probably not be held liable even if it IS illegal, but if the volume and freqency of such discussions reaches the ears of the stuffy non-computer-literate budget managers (is there any other kind?) in a large organization, the plug may very well be pulled on groups who don't pay for their own connection. People like me. So even though I'm always curious to hear detailed explanations of any new computing technique, even those involving paper clips, the net as a whole probably doesn't benefit from such traffic. The students are the ones who cry out for free speech, but students have little to do with budget approval. ( Actually, here at the UW they usually cry out for their right to use profanity in the campus newspaper, which of course has little if anything to do with our first amendment right to free speech. It's been a long, long time since I heard anyone exercise their political right to free speech in order to voice a rational opinion about anything). Kraig Eno, kraig@biostr.washington.edu "Problems generate new knowledge." -- M. Usui