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From: shap@sfsup.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.stargate
Subject: Re: Stargate restrictions (was: Dec
Message-ID: <1208@sfsup.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Mar-87 18:47:01 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 16 18:47:01 1987
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Summary: Mirror/Not following copyright

In article <213200001@mirror>, rs@mirror.UUCP writes:
> 
> Please be advised that site 'mirror,' a machine owned and operated by
> Mirror Systems, Inc., is assuming that posting an article to Usenet
> gives implicit unlimited permission for redistribution through any
> means.
> --
> Rich $alz					"Drug tests p**s me off"
> Mirror Systems, Cambridge Massachusetts		rs@mirror.TMC.COM
> {adelie, mit-eddie, ihnp4, harvard!wjh12, cca, cbosgd, seismo}!mirror!rs

I am not a lawyer, but by the way I read the copyright laws this is
straightforwardly illegal.

If MicroSoft gives you a floppy disk and says that you can't redistribute it,
you lose, and they have a legal department to prove it.

Were (hypothetical) MicroSoft to give you a floppy disk and say that it
could be redistributed to anyone except Joe Blatz (are you listening,
Joe?), you still lose.

If my reading is right, you are violating the copyright law. Rest
assured that there are people on the net who will delight in testing this.

Jon Shapiro