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Re: 6 months!
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Date: 
Thu, 17 Dec 1998 23:19:45 GMT
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Weren't Newsgroups and mailing lists on of the main focuses?  Does that
mean the law missed those?  Now That's Comedy!

Jeff

Matthew Miller wrote:

Tom McDonald <rocketman@familySPAMTHIS,PALradio.com> wrote:
Like, do you have the right to copy digital music to a ram buffer while it's
being played?

(said like the Great Gildersleeve...)
Oooo! Isn't that sneaky...

:) Well, it's not sneaky really, it just points out that legal wording
usually has no clue about the way technology works. Like the son of CDA law
that prohibits Bad Things from being distributed to Innocent Little Children
via "the World Wide Web". Ahh. So FTP is ok? What about http on port 8080?
Gopher?

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(...) :) Well, it's not sneaky really, it just points out that legal wording usually has no clue about the way technology works. Like the son of CDA law that prohibits Bad Things from being distributed to Innocent Little Children via "the World Wide (...) (26 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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