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To: mathprof

**sigh**

Well, forget about developing new networking applications - if it can even remotely be used to transfer movies or music, it'll be shut down instantly.

NOT that I support the pirates, but this decision to me is the same thing as sueing Smith & Wesson if a bank robber uses a gun to rob a bank - I guess the law of the land is that if you make something that can be abused, you're liable - so, if I get hit by a drunk driver who drives an Explorer, I can sue Ford for selling him the car, and making it available to him to abuse.

Who do you talk to if you want to become a citizen of New Zealand?


18 posted on 06/27/2005 7:53:02 AM PDT by ByDesign
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To: ByDesign
Well, forget about developing new networking applications

In the U.S. -- I bet you that no other country, even the totalitarian ones, is going to make such an equally stupid move. Now not only is your home only until it catches the fancy of a developer, if you create a way to transfer data, then you are responsible for all data transferred that way!

102 posted on 06/27/2005 8:25:22 AM PDT by snowsislander
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