Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!rutgers!mcdchg!ddsw1!zane From: zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Fooling the censors Message-ID: <1991Mar23.213910.10382@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Date: 23 Mar 91 21:39:10 GMT References: <1991Mar16.051537.14852@alphalpha.com> Distribution: na Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Wheeling, IL Lines: 25 In article writes: >nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) writes: > >> The simple answer is that rec.autos is legal and alt.sex.pictures is illegal. > >The content may be, but there's no guarantee that every image that travels on >a.s.p. violates copyright law. The group is just the medium that brings it to >you. It is, in theory, possessed of the same constitutional protections that >your daily paper is. >Putting the issue of personal taste aside, if I post an image of a certain >actor getting to know his hamster on a real personal level clipped from a >magazine, that's a beef against me, not a.s.p. It's the same as if I put a >note in this group parenthetically stating that I'd pay 2500 bucks for any >SunDevil prosecutor or informant's credit card number. If I ever did post a >message asking for just that, and not using it as an example as in the past >sentence, and somebody gave those numbers in a public reply, then that person >would have trouble ahead. Not the newsgroup! And yes, I know something about >conspiracy law. CYA paragraph coming up... That is how it SHOULD be, not how it is. BBSes are seized because their users may have traded CC #'s by email, not just the users trading the #'s. -- The Ravings of the Insane Maniac Sameer Parekh -- zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM