Anon wrote:
I want to publicly thank John Young for making articles available. MOst of those articles I would not otherwise have seen.
I second that!
that John offered. Was there anyone in the world, well, in the cyberworld, who was fooled by the article on the Microsoft acquisition of the Catholic church? Anyone, who after reading that piece, considered anything other than the creativity of the author, should be committed to St. John's Home for the Desperately Dumb.
Notice that Microsoft was flooded with complaints only after Rush Limbaugh read it on his show...
However, there was something in that article that was of concern. If the Massachusetts judge in the MIT student case actually said that he couldn't act because Congress had not enacted any laws, then it is for sure they will try to and they will try to act hurriedly. Hurried actions by congress are even worse
The Reuters report said: Although U.S. District Court Judge Richard Stearns was critical of LaMacchia's actions, he ruled he could not be prosecuted under a wire fraud statute because it could result in a flood of actions against home computer users copying even single software programmes for their own use. Anonymity had nothing to do with it. It was clear cut copyright law - which wouldn't have hurt LaMacchia as he wasn't making anything out of it, so they tried to hit him with wire fraud, and the Judge found _that_ untenable. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rishab Aiyer Ghosh "In between the breaths is rishab@dxm.ernet.in the space where we live" rishab@arbornet.org - Lawrence Durrell Voice/Fax/Data +91 11 6853410 Voicemail +91 11 3760335 H 34C Saket, New Delhi 110017, INDIA