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Re: Landmark English Internet Libel Ruling

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 00:00
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In article <1940@thanatos.win-uk.net>,
Paul Burridge <osiris@thanatos.win-uk.net> wrote:
>It did nothing to prevent the spread of the material because Demon
>simply ignored it!

If demon hadn't ignored it, it still would have done nothing. By the time
he noticed it, it had already been propogated worldwide to millions of
servers, each of which would still have a copy available for any reader to
see no matter how thoroughly Demon scrubbed their disks, and most of which
were outside the UK and therefore beyond his legal reach.

The legal process is inherently broken. The law has no teeth to do anything
but harass innocent third parties, and anyone engaging in that sort of tactic
is a heartless sociopath.

-- 
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 my letters.  Game's over.  I'm outta here." -- Melissa ... by Kwyjibo.
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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Landmark English Internet Libel Ruling
Date: 1999/04/20
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