Dear Mr. Knight, I am not interested in "tearing apart" anything, I was just participating in a discussion. Ad hominem attacks are really unjustified. Even though you have a hard time understanding my arguments, I have refrained from calling you stupid, until now. You are not only stupid, but silly. "I'm glad your're not a politician" is a non-sequitur, and is certainly irrelevant to the discussion. Further, this whole discussion is entirely "academic", since there is absolutely no case law on this particular subject. So if you are so excited about it, collect your pennies and hire an attorney to enforce your copyright, I'm sure my brethern could use the business. Kirk Sheppard kshep@netcom.com P. O. Box 30911 "It is Better to Die on Your Feet Than to Bethesda, MD 20824-0911 Live On Your Knees." U.S.A. - Emiliano Zapata On Tue, 1 Feb 1994, Chris Knight wrote:
On Tue, 1 Feb 1994, Kirk Sheppard wrote:
Regarding the archive I believe it was some company in Canada, I'm not sure. There was a thread about this archiving question on another group I suppose in the last three weeks. I can't remember where I saw it, if it wasn't here. Sorry. And about "paying" for the cd-rom, I pay for the usenet feed, and none of us who post are getting royalty payments from any of the internet providers. So answer the question again, what is the difference in paying an internet provider for access to usenet, and paying a cd-rom provider for access to usenet? None materially, except that the cd is not interactive, and some providers are (not all as in bbs' that don't send e-mail to the internet, but have some usenet groups.) There is no material difference that I can determine.
I'm just glad you are not a politician.
If all you are concerned with is "Material differnce", then you think it's perfectly ok for me to sell you a good copy of a magazine? By your "logic" (loosely used), you had to pay for the copy, and you had to pay for the original, so what's the difference? The difference is the WILL AND PERMISSION of the author! As the author of this message, I willingly placed it within the net. I HAVE NOT, NOR WILL NOT, GIVE FREE PERMISSION TO A CD-ROM PUBLISHING HOUSE TO PUBLISH MY WORK.
The basis of copyright law is the protection of the author's rights. One of these rights is the choice of distribution.
Perhaps you should try writing for money sometime. You might actually appreciate what you seem to be trying to tear apart.
-ck