Hyman Rosen wrote: > > Alexander Terekhov wrote: > > http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/courtweb/pdf/D02NYSC/01-07482.PDF > > ... From the user's vantage point, SmartDownload could be analogized > > to a free neighborhood newspaper, readily obtained from a sidewalk > > box or supermarket counter without any exchange with a seller or > > vender. > > I'm glad you made the free paper analogy. What do you imagine the > reaction of the courts would be if someone showed up at the box > and took all the papers and started reselling them for pulp?
Hyman, Hyman, how could one possibly "take all the papers" in the case of downloading (a denial-of-service attack aside for a moment)? Your "took all the papers" hypothetical is inapplicable to the case at hand. regards, alexander. -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
