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1997-12-19 - Re: Clinton signs draconian antipiracy law, from the Netly News

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Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 03:00:24 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: Clinton signs draconian antipiracy law, from the Netly News
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At 02:30 PM 12/18/1997 -0700, Tim May wrote:
>What I meant by this was that the Copyright Cops will only go after those
>who illegally copy the items made by big corporations and other friends of
>the enforcers. Netscape and Oracle are Friends of Bill, so they'll get
>quick attention. Joe Blow will be put on hold.

Of course, most of your CDs are made by Disney-Sony-Megacorp, who are
also Friends of Bill.  On the other hand, one extra backup copy of
FooBar Development Tool will get you.

>"Anarchist's home in mountains raided...thousands of dollars worth of
>illegally copied articles, files, and CDs found...prosecutors say "three
>strikes" law could put anarchist separatist survalist spy May away for life
>without the possibility of parole."
>
>And now I need to go mount  that Leupold scope on my new Remington 700 .308
>sniper rifle....just the thing to reach out and touch someone.

I hope you didn't make a backup Xerox(tm) of the manual - 
it's part of that $1500 munitions system, and obviously most of the value
is in the intellectual property, not the boring metal....
				Thanks! 
					Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF  3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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