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  • From: "David R. Matusiak" <matusiak AT speakeasy.net>
  • 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 13:27:27 -0700 (PDT)

Wade --

you are a gentleman and a scholar (and probably the one who sent me the link
in
the first place!). thanks for your help!
drm
___ _ _____ . ....
m a h t o o z e e a c k a t s p e e k e e z e e d o t n e t
------ / / ......... . . .

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, H. Wade Minter wrote:

> 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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