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Re: iStar memo: don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups

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From: Morton Goldmacher
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 00:00
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Sten.thaning@mbox200.swipnet.se (Sten Thaning) wrote:

>Another point is that since the groups carry binaries (I think, I
>don't have the list right now), and you can't run the programs/look at
>the pictures without special equipment such as an uu-decoder, Istar is
>actually not giving you anything illegal. 

This was argued in a prosecution in which the offensive images were on
a videotape.  The accused claimed that the images only existed if you
were playing the tape in a VCR, and therefore the tape itself could
not constitute an offensive article.  His appeal failed.

Morton M. Goldmacher
Barrister and Solicitor
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From: alchemy@interlog.com (Morton Goldmacher)
Subject: Re: iStar memo:  don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups
Date: 1996/07/11
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