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From: eric@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Eric Cotton)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Followup on "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" copyright problem
Message-ID: <484@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Jul-86 10:20:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.484
Posted: Thu Jul  3 10:20:47 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Jul-86 05:15:44 EDT
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Reply-To: eric@cbmvax.UUCP (Eric Cotton)
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In article <4703@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.uucp (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>
>> Tattletale. :-)
>
>Damn Straight.  Usenet is not above the law, despite the appearances and the
>actions of a few low-lifes.  We've played far and wide with copyright over
>the years, from posting Joe-Bob every week to this latest mistake.  When
>Usenet was 100 users on 50 sites, practicality says that it ins't a problem,
>but 20,000 user on 2,000 sites is a significant audience. If WE don't police
>ourself, someone else will do it for us.

I agree, we should police ourSELVES.  That is why I have to agree with the
original poster about tattling.  I followed all the postings in reference to
this issue.  It seems to me that the original poster of Niven's work took
enough abuse from the net.police without the need to drag outside parties
into it.  I think we all learned a much needed lesson in net etiquette.
Granted, the posting was a stupid mistake, but there was no malicious intent,
and I feel that the poster was generally sorry for what he did.

>                                         It is CRITICAL that we show
>ourselves to be cooperative when these things occur, because voluntarily
>trying to reduce the damage of an infringement goes a lot way towards
>keeping the author from geting pissed at us and the court from awarding
>major damages.  As I said before, be glad the infringement was on Niven and
>not Harlan Ellison.
>

        Eric Cotton
--
"My hovercraft is full of eels."
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