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1997-10-27 - DEA trying to subpoena book dealers

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From: stewarts@ix.netcom.com
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1997-10-27 18:28:15 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 02:28:15 +0800

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From: stewarts@ix.netcom.com
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 02:28:15 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: DEA trying to subpoena book dealers
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Heard on the radio this morning that a book publisher in Berkeley
received a subpoena from the DEA (not from a judge, from a DEA agent...)
requesting information on everybody in Arizona who bought their
book on marijuana hydroponics.  The publisher declined to cooperate,
and there was a nice First Amendment riff from the reporter about it.
Their name sounded like Ronin Press.  A book store in Tempe also received
a subpoena for names of everyone who'd bought the book.

Cypherpunks relevance?  Will web publishers get the same treatment?
Will corporations running Corporate Message Recovery get requests
for email sent to their sales addresses?  How many of them will comply
rather than noticing the bogosity of the subpoena?  On the other hand,
at least with CMR, companies can set decide how much information to keep,
and this sort of abuse may encourage them to limit their use of it.
				Thanks! 		Bill
Bill Stewart, stewarts@ix.netcom.com
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