Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!boulder!pratt From: pratt@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Jonathan Pratt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Moebius patch (deprotection) and warning Message-ID: <8602@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Date: 5 May 89 05:38:34 GMT References: <12752@ut-emx.UUCP> <533@biar.UUCP> Sender: news@boulder.Colorado.EDU Reply-To: pratt@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Jonathan Pratt) Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 25 In article <533@biar.UUCP> trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead) writes: > ( About posting instructions on removing copy protection ) > Quite true, but you don't address the real question. The > fact of the matter is this; if the posting of that information > causes 10000 extra sales, and _one_ act of piracy, the author > is in trouble. Do you have a statute that you're prepared to quote, or is this simply opinion? The real question is what laws, if any, could be applied to restrict the dissemination of such information without colliding with freedom of expression rights. Your comments could greatly broaden the realm of this thread if we discuss the degree of responsibility the purveyor of information has for the good and bad things others do with that information. But we've already digressed too far from Macintoshes. Jonathan /* Jonathan Pratt Internet: pratt@boulder.colorado.edu * * Campus Box 525 uucp: ..!{ncar|nbires}!boulder!pratt * * University of Colorado * * Boulder, CO 80309 Phone: (303) 492-4293 */