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Re: [internetworkers] DOJ To Start Prosecuting peer-to-peer users
- From: "H. Wade Minter" <minter AT lunenburg.org>
- To: "internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [internetworkers] DOJ To Start Prosecuting peer-to-peer users
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 16:24:34 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, David R. Matusiak wrote:
> related to all this, i recently read an rather biting article where the
> author
> urged techies to "stop messing about in politics" and that they are better
> off
> spending their time developing technologies that make the
> old-fogey-tech-illiterate-washingtonians "irrelevant."
That was Declan McCullagh, of Politech fame. That article, and its cousin
article "The DMCA isn't that bad" took a lot of people by surprise, since
Declan is generally thought to be on the side of tech freedom.
"Techies should forget politics"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03880.html
Readers' reply to that article:
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03889.html
"The DMCA's not so bad"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03907.html
Edward Felten's response:
(not up yet. Soon to be at http://www.politechbot.com/)
Declan's "Code, not laws" message misses one big point - all the 31337
technology in the world's not going to protect you from getting thrown
in jail if you piss off the powers that be.
--Wade
--
If you have a VCR or MP3 player, you need to read these links:
http://www.digitalconsumer.org/
http://digitalspeech.org/
http://www.libertyboard.org/
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[internetworkers] DOJ To Start Prosecuting peer-to-peer users,
Michael Winslow Czeiszperger, 08/21/2002
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Re: [internetworkers] DOJ To Start Prosecuting peer-to-peer users,
Dan Caugherty, 08/21/2002
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Re: [internetworkers] DOJ To Start Prosecuting peer-to-peer users,
thomas, 08/21/2002
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Re: [internetworkers] DOJ To Start Prosecuting peer-to-peer users,
David R. Matusiak, 08/21/2002
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Re: [internetworkers] DOJ To Start Prosecuting peer-to-peer users,
H. Wade Minter, 08/21/2002
- Re: [internetworkers] DOJ To Start Prosecuting peer-to-peer users, David R. Matusiak, 08/21/2002
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Re: [internetworkers] DOJ To Start Prosecuting peer-to-peer users,
Paul Jones, 08/21/2002
- Re: [internetworkers] DOJ To Start Prosecuting peer-to-peer users, H. Wade Minter, 08/21/2002
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Re: [internetworkers] DOJ To Start Prosecuting peer-to-peer users,
H. Wade Minter, 08/21/2002
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Re: [internetworkers] DOJ To Start Prosecuting peer-to-peer users,
David R. Matusiak, 08/21/2002
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Re: [internetworkers] DOJ To Start Prosecuting peer-to-peer users,
thomas, 08/21/2002
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Re: [internetworkers] DOJ To Start Prosecuting peer-to-peer users,
Dan Caugherty, 08/21/2002
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