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From: jpoplaws@telesci.UUCP (Joseph E Poplawski)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: The Rape of Usenet
Keywords: The wholesale capturing of Usenet by GEnie
Message-ID: <910@telesci.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jan 90 10:12:14 GMT
References: <946@crash.cts.com> <443@deadpup.UUCP> <66654@looking.on.ca>
Reply-To: jpoplaws@telesci.UUCP (Joseph E Poplawski)
Organization: Fantasci Incorporated
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In article <66654@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
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>What this means to my mind is -- any copyright that forbids material from
>going down a link to a system you don't like *is* valid if you declare it
>before the link is in place.  But it is not valid if you declare it after
>the link is in place, and you yourself use that link.

I think that the above statement is really bogus.  How can anyone forbid their
material from going down a link to a system before the link is in place?  Is
every user supposed to have ESP and know when new links which may be 
objectionable are going to be created?  I don't think so.  I think that if a
link is created that is objectionable, and there are people who do not want
their material transmitted to that site, that it would be the objectionable
site, and it's feed that should make sure that the material doesn't get there.

Just some thoughts...

-Jo