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From: ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP (Kenneth Adam Arromdee)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group
Subject: Re: Net censorship
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Date: Thu, 14-Nov-85 14:28:43 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 14 14:28:43 1985
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About whether moderators should not post articles that "may" cause legal
problems:

As far as I know, it is legal to copy any program whatsoever, for your
own use. It's giving away or selling the copy, while keeping an original,
that's prohibited. However, many companies make claims that any copying
at all of a program is illegal, when no court case has ever decided on
that subject. I think that moderators should not fail to post something
on the grounds that it is illegal whenever there is in fact considerable
doubt that it's illegal, just because a company makes a claim that it's
illegal. (This would not apply, of course, to things such as posting
stolen credit card numbers, because there is no significant controversy
that it's not illegal to use a stolen credit card number.)
-- 
If you know the alphabet up to 'k', you can teach it up to 'k'.

Kenneth Arromdee
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