[ale] those of you reading this while within US jurisdiction should have a care....

Kilroy, Chris Chris.Kilroy at turner.com
Wed Oct 16 14:48:22 EDT 2002





my point was not to say that this issue was not a problem.


my point was about overreacting to the situation, specifically people worrying about alarm bells going off in the offices of their ISP when they download these text files to check this out.

I don't think we'll have death camps as a result of this legislation though, so i think we can keep the Nazi references to a minimum.  =)

to the point about a ballot box, it is hard for the ballot box to make a difference because the electorate knows *nothing* about this issue.  The percentage of the population that does understand the ramifications of DMCA will have to educate some of them, as well as educate politicians about the matter.

-chris


->
->Because you haven't seen it yet doesn't mean it can't happen.  We sat
->and watched the war in 1940 being "isolationists" because it didn't
->concern us.  Hitler and his friends were only mucking around 
->in germany
->and then europe, nothing to bother America.
->
->How long until RIAA and their friends decide you should have a tax
->implemented to cover all the pirated MP3's and adobe documents you
->should have bought?  Just a little 2% that goes to a superfund for the
->big guys.  It's up to you to prove you didn't pirate anything and when
->you finally do so (probably a good 10yr process) it'll take a good 15
->years to get a refund, if you do, it won't have interest and it'll be 
->paid over a 20 year period.  If you die, it is non-transferable.
->
->
->
->Thus spake Kilroy, Chris (Chris.Kilroy at turner.com):
->
->> From: "Kilroy, Chris" <Chris.Kilroy at turner.com>
->> To: ALE <ale at ale.org>
->> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 14:28:04 -0400
->> X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59)
->> Subject: RE: [ale] those of you reading this while within 
->US jurisdiction 
->>     should have a care....
->> 
->> i seriously doubt anybody on this list knows of any 
->incidents where people have been hauled off from their cube 
->in cuffs because of reading this stuff...
->> 
->> 
->> ->
->> ->Nazi Germany (thus ending the discussion)
->> ->
->> ->On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 12:37, Geoffrey wrote:
->> ->> Can anyone else think of any other situation where you can 
->> ->be arrested 
->> ->> simply for reading a document???
->> ->> 
->> ->> Jim Popovitch wrote:
->> ->> > A very good read:
->> ->> > 
->> ->> > "The patch itself is on the Red Hat site, on this page, 
->> ->and the oddity here
->> ->> > can be seen if you go down to the bottom. Under the 
->> ->heading "references"
->> ->> > there is a link to http://www.thefreeworld.net/non-US/. 
->> ->At this point, those
->> ->> > of you reading this while within US jurisdiction should 
->> ->have a care"
->> ->> > 
->> ->> > Full Article:
->> ->> > http://www.theregus.com/content/4/26656.html
->> ->> > 
->> ->> > 
->> ->> > 
->> ->> > 
->> ->> > ---
->> ->> > This message has been sent through the ALE general 
->> ->discussion list.
->> ->> > See http://www.ale.org/mailing-lists.shtml for more info. 
->> ->Problems should be 
->> ->> > sent to listmaster at ale dot org.
->> ->> > 
->> ->> > 
->> ->> 
->> ->> -- 
->> ->> Until later: Geoffrey           esoteric at 3times25.net
->> ->> 
->> ->> I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
->> ->> to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?
->> ->> 
->> ->> 
->> ->> ---
->> ->> This message has been sent through the ALE general 
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->> ->> See http://www.ale.org/mailing-lists.shtml for more info. 
->> ->Problems should be 
->> ->> sent to listmaster at ale dot org.
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