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Article #89Re: iStar memo: don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups
From: Sten Thaning
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 00:00
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alchemy@interlog.com (Morton Goldmacher) 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. OK. Thanks for clearing that up. That would mean that even encrypted messages/binaries are illegal, wouldn't it? Even if I don't have the decryption code at my computer, would the encrypted message still be illegal? For the sake of argument, say that I was to create a decryption key which, if you tried to decrypt the file COMMAND.COM with it, would create an offensive image as a result. Could that make the file COMMAND.COM illegal, with this reasoning? - Sten Thaning (Sten.thaning@mbox200.swipnet.se) Alcohol and maths don't mix. Never drink and derive!
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