Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mgm.mit.edu!wolfgang
From: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (Wolfgang Rupprecht)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: The Worm on NPR, 10 Nov 88
Message-ID: <7900@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Date: 11 Nov 88 22:21:51 GMT
References: <2197@ficc.uu.net> <32194@bbn.COM>
Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu.UUCP (Wolfgang Rupprecht)
Organization: Freelance Software Consultant, Boston, Ma.
Lines: 22

>}Gene Spafford and Cliff Stohl, together with Renee Montaine and Robert
>}Segal (spelling subject to random drug testing, ordering subject to the
>}whimsy of the script) talked viruses last night on NPR. A humorous and
>}Damn, I wish I'd got that on tape.
>You can.  Instead of lamenting that you missed the opportunity to steal a
								   ^^^^^
>copy of their report by pirating a copy, you can call NPR (202-822-2000)
>and ask to BUY a copy.  They'll be happy to accommodate.  $15, I believe.

PLEASE! Lets not get so hyper...  It seems that this virus/worm is
really bringing out the ugly side in lots of otherwise reasonable
people.

I would be very surprised to hear that the right to record radio shows
doesn't fall under the same "time-shifting" fair-use provision of the
law as the legal recording of TV programs with a VCR.

Not that NPR is a place to donate money to...

-wolfgang
Wolfgang Rupprecht	ARPA:  wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (IP 18.82.0.114)
TEL: (617) 267-4365	UUCP:  mit-eddie!mgm.mit.edu!wolfgang