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From: cooper@arisia.Xerox.COM (Martin F N Cooper)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth,comp.sys.apple2,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: <14088@arisia.Xerox.COM>
Date: 10 Nov 90 23:47:04 GMT
Reply-To: cooper@arisia.UUCP (Martin F N Cooper)
Organization: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
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In article <1990Nov9.210351.23551@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Desdinova) writes:
>  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.

>I am SICK and TIRED of people trying to take away my rights to think as I please
>because they think they know what's best for me.  This is censorship, plain
>and simple, whether done "for my good" or not.  The law is plain- the consumer
>has rights above and beyond big business, and I intend to make sure I never
>lose those rights.

However, remember that many people on the net work for private corporations,
and that newsgroups such as rec.music.synth are populated in the main by
people who are not employed in areas directly related to the subject at
hand. So a company might just decide that in the interest of increasing
productivity (as a stated reason, at least) they should cut off access to
the net for their employees. That, to me, is certainly to the detriment of
the net as a whole.

I'm not saying I agree with these ideas, all I'm saying is that they could
easily happen, and we wouldn't like the result.

	Martin.