From: jim@bilbo.suite.com (Jim Miller)
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 94 16:04:40 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: INFOBAHN PANEL SEES WORLD THROUGH [..] BLINDERS
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I'd like to correct a misunderstanding.

In the original "INFOBAHN PANEL SEES WORLD..." post I said that the ILA  
report was included in a fax from the Center for Strategic and  
International Studies (CSIS).  First, I was not an original recipient of  
the fax.  I obtained the fax (and ILA report) via a forwarded e-mail  
message so I can't say for sure that the original CSIS fax included the  
copyrighted ILA report.  I originally thought the ILA report was part of  
the fax.  I now suspect the ILA report was not sent with the CSIS fax but  
instead was placed in the forwarded e-mail message by one of the multiple  
forwarders.

Just felt like clearing that up.  Nobody at CSIS is demanding an apology  
or anything like that.

Ok.  Onward.

The reason I posted the ILA report:

I fear that the desire to minimize electronic copyright violations will  
give corporations an incentive to work with government to devise methods  
to "control" the content of the Infobahn.  Now, I don't believe they could  
ever completely succeed at controlling the content of the Infobahn, but I  
do believe they sure as hell will try.

Do you really think the politicians of the world will just sit back and  
say "Well, we really can't prevent electronic copyright violations, so we  
wont even try"?  More likely they will try many different things.

I'm hoping the ILA report will prompt a discussion of the possible  
approaches the government may take to control the content of the Infobahn,  
and the side affects of said approaches.

Jim_Miller@suite.com