-- On 7 Aug 2001, at 0:36, Aimee Farr wrote:

You guys are acting like Uni said, "THOU SHALT NOT WRITE CODE."

That is what he did say: This thread started when someone proposed publishing thought crimes into an irretrievable medium such as freenet in order to render moot any future court orders to hand over all copies of some item of forbidden knowledge. Unicorn condescendingly explained that would be illegal, but with suitable mystic legal incantation it would be legal to escrow the forbidden information with some offshore lawyer. Which is of course total bunkum -- for the court can be as unamused by one act as the other, but the act that requires more explanations and legal documents gives them more handles to undo it and more reasons to put one in prison, and more inconvenient knowledge about one's affairs and activities, generates more legal costs, and puts one in front of the unamused judge for longer, giving one more opportunities to get into deeper trouble. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 4yvbwk+eYBStv1fohR52VeVtDMsVDz8BuOccrL60 4JnCvupJX0Zpf+njUZbnjhE65hs9Lj9mDDDSGk4UN