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Re: Case Dismissed!
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Subject: Re: Case Dismissed!
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From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
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Date: 3 Jan 1995 01:17:34 -0500
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Apparently-To: merlyn@teleport.com
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Distribution: inet
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From merlyn@teleport.com Tue Jan 3 13: 01:51 1995
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Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
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Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
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References: <wb8fozD1LBHJ.9vC@netcom.com> <RAOUL.94Dec30191933@primavera.mit.edu> <3e2o4j$t9b@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <RAOUL.94Dec31022737@marinara.mit.edu>
In article <RAOUL.94Dec31022737@marinara.mit.edu>,
Nico Garcia <raoul@athena.mit.edu> wrote:
>In article <3e2o4j$t9b@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> sethf@athena.mit.edu (Seth Finkelstein) writes:
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> This is the standard fallacy of comparing information to a
> physical object. It isn't. Mike Godwin has a whole article where he
> discusses the inapplicability of thinking copying is identical to theft.
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>Good point. But the courts seem to consider it theft.
Actually, they don't. See, e.g., Dowling v. U.S (1985), a Supreme Court
case that addresses this very issue.
--Mike
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