Re: News items from a2central.com

[russotto@wanda.vf.pond.com (Matthew T. Russotto)]

In article <m5tt5.2094$J91.201083@dca1-nnrp2.news.digex.net>,
Frank Townsend <ftownsen@iamdigex.net> wrote:
}You are absolutely correct.
}
}Current sale of item on a store shelf can't be necessary to show retail
}value.  Otherwise, any book, no matter how popular, that was out of print,
}could be plundered with impunity.

No, "could be plundered without fear of criminal charges".  And that's
already the case; books are not subject to the criminal provisions of
the copyright act.
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."