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From: bjornmu@idt.unit.no (Bj|rn Munch)
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Subject: Re^3: C
Message-ID: <1990Jan9.192926.26965@idt.unit.no>
Date: 9 Jan 90 19:29:26 GMT
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In article <1976@texsun.Central.Sun.COM>, lupe@alanya.Sun.COM (Lupe
Christoph  Sun Germany Consulting) writes:
> 
> This brings up another thought: assume, somebody stupid or malicious
> enough *would* send such a thing. Wouldn't be any site forwarding it
> guilty of assitisting in piracy ? Should everybody running news and/or
> mail forwarding check every message for illegal activity ?
> 

Don't be silly.  Of course, forwarders can't possibly be resposible
for the contents of the mail/news they are forwarding.  They aren't
capable of scanning all the news, and they *shouldn't* read the mail.

If a pirate copy was sent by physical mail, would the post man be
guilty of a crime?  What about the pilot of an airplane in which a
passenger is smuggling narcotics?  They are both in the same
posistion: they are just being used without their knowing it.

Can you imagine lots of people reading thorugh *all* ~10 MB of news
and all personal mail each day and decide what they don't want to
forward?  This cencorship would be a much more serious crime.  Except
for the fact that it would be practically impossible...

Bj|rn Munch    ("The Man With a Pipe in His Name")   bjornmu@idt.unit.no
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