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Message no. 1
From: Luke Kendall <luke@********.CANON.OZ.AU>
Subject: Copyright (was: Re: Billy Idol: CyberPunk)
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 15:43:20 +1000
What's this button do? <GRAFF85@********.CORTLAND.EDU> wrote:

>>>
you wanna take me down you have to take down sounds.sdsu.edu also and they have
_GIGS_ of songs recorded in .au format...so don't talk to a software pirate
about copyright laws....i'm breaking a few with the software i'm running on my
computer.....to say the least i pirate enough of it. now if bubba's listneing
in i'm screwed but then i have the right to privacy in my mail as far as i
know.

--The Phlatline
<<<

Are you on drugs, or something, man?
If I was interested in `taking you down' I wouldn't send you mail about it.
Sheesh.

While you're at it, why don't you scan in all the Shadowrun stuff you can
find, and distribute that electronically? Where do you draw the line?
Would you feel differently if it was something _you'd_ created, that people
were ripping off?

luke
Message no. 2
From: What's this button do? <GRAFF85@********.CORTLAND.EDU>
Subject: Re: Copyright (was: Re: Billy Idol: CyberPunk)
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 07:48:31 -0400
>
>Are you on drugs, or something, man?
>If I was interested in `taking you down' I wouldn't send you mail about it.
>Sheesh.
>
>While you're at it, why don't you scan in all the Shadowrun stuff you can
>find, and distribute that electronically? Where do you draw the line?
>Would you feel differently if it was something _you'd_ created, that people
>were ripping off?
>
>luke

look i know where you are coming from...as for Shadowrun..I don't have a
scanner or the time...i did the wav a while ago when i got my sound card...as
to copyrights..it's onetrack as a promo this way....i'm sure you've copied
tapes that you couldn't afford or maybe copied a video tape....somethings i
have a conscience on others not. i don't feel _realy_ guilty about this
because the way i look at this i'm proliferating an artist and sharing a small
sample of what he wanted to share with us.

--Phlatline

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