Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ccut!wnoc-tyo-news!dclsic!sjc!leia!harkcom From: harkcom@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp (Alton Harkcom) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Lifestyle Information Message-ID: Date: 25 Apr 91 23:58:17 GMT References: <11216@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <9418@rsiatl.Dixie.Com> <17164@hoptoad.uucp> <63847@bbn.BBN.COM> Sender: news@leia.pa.yokogawa.co.jp Organization: Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan Lines: 25 In-reply-to: cosell@bbn.com's message of 23 Apr 91 11:20:47 GMT In article <63847@bbn.BBN.COM> cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) writes: =}What was the cost? Well, we caught [and, presumably, =}convicted] a whole bunch of criminals that would otherwise have gone =}free, and the cost was that a few people were =}inconvenienced/scared/embarrassed. Don't forget all of the innocent who will be convicted... Is that a cost you can live with? =} After all, the LEOs still had to prove =}you guilty, just buying the cassettes *themselves* is not a crime [yet, of =}course...:-(]. But proving you guilty and you actually being guilty are usually two very different things... Also, don't forget the social costs which will have to be born to help those who are not guilty to fight being decreed guilty... (Notice that lovely word 'decreed')... -- -- Al ** Our network will be down from 4/27 to 5/7 ** ** so if your post bounces post it again after 5/6 **