Pleading the 5th

Declan McCullagh declan at well.com
Thu Apr 5 20:14:28 PDT 2001


Amusing. So if I have a cpunx archive, I can't place ads on it?
I welcome your flurry of lawsuits. We already know about your
lawyers on retainer. Perhaps you can forward them come constitutional
amendments.

-Declan


On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 09:13:52PM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> 
> > The problem with Choate's argument is that (besides that it's silly),
> > he gives implied consent to redistribute by posting here. Also, as he claims
> > to know, CDR is by nature distributed, and each node can set its own
> > policy. Dont' like it? Don't participate.
> 
> Really?
> 
> Go back to the archives and look at my original attempt to set a policy
> that SSZ subscribers posts were 'public domain'. It was immediately after
> Igor and I put up the original two-site CDR.
> 
> Note who was arguing in the contrary.
> 
> No, there is no 'implied consent'. I own SSZ. I own the copyright of my
> words. There is no 'meeting of minds' between you and I for example, so
> there can be no 'contract', implied or otherwise (since I've said publicly
> I won't agree).
> 
> There is no fine print that states 'we reserve the right to edit all
> submissions'.
> 
> Go fuck off god-$ fascist.
> 
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