Does information want to be free?
Declan B. McCullagh
declan+ at CMU.EDU
Sat Jun 15 01:03:41 PDT 1996
Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 14-Jun-96 Does information want to
be.. by "Mark M."@voicenet.com
> For those interested, there is an article in the latest Scientific American
> about copyright laws and how they will be applied to the Internet. It used
> the banned French book about the former president as an example of just how
> difficult it is to regulate information. It also addresses whether routers
> (or analogously anonymous remailers) should be held liable for any copyright
> violations that may pass through them.
ObPlug: _Le Grand Secret_ is at <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~declan/le-secret/>.
Last month I inteviewed a French government official in conjunction with
an article I was writing. I confess I was amused by how he described
those Internet anarchists who delighted in publicizing books that should
in fact be restricted.
-Declan
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