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From: learn@ddsw1.MCS.COM (William Vajk)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Is information property ? (was: Re: EFF amicus brief in U.S. v. Riggs)
Message-ID: <1991May28.025025.27818@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 28 May 91 02:50:25 GMT
References: <1991May26.185915.21605@eff.org> <1991May27.065841.6280@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <1991May27.131121.3589@eff.org>
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In article <1991May27.131121.3589@eff.org> Mike Godwin writes:

>It is worth noting that Len pled guilty to wire fraud. Unlike
>the Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property statute, wire
>fraud does not actually require a theft of tangible property.

Thanks, Mike.

Bears changing though.

Strange, isn't it, that wire fraud wasn't one of the charges as of
August 1990 (for which see special edition TELECOM DIGEST dated
11 August 1990.) The charges quite specifically, unless they are
misquoted, two counts of "traffic in information through which
a computer may be accessed without authorization and three counts
of interstate transfer of goods valued in excess of $ 5000.

Tellya, if I were Breckinridge L. Wilcox (foreman of the Grand 
Jury which handed down the indictments) I'd be real angry.

Bill Vajk