Re: News items from a2central.com

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

In article <39ac1d63.94159913@24.9.0.17>,
Jeff Blakeney <CUTblakeney@home.com> wrote:
}On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 02:57:30 GMT, russotto@wanda.vf.pond.com (Matthew
}T. Russotto) wrote:
}
}>This kind of crap rather proves you argue in bad faith.  Someone goes
}>through all the effort to get some piece of software legitimately
}>released, and you insist on more and higher hoops to jump through.
}
}I believe he is only expecting the same things he expects from the
}Lost Classics or Treasure Chest projects.

That he's consistent doesn't change anything.

}All he is doing is simply pointing out that it MIGHT be illegal to
}distribute Merlin at this point so it would be safest to wait until
}the matter is cleared up. 

How much safer will it be?

}He is, in fact, trying to do people a
}favour by saving them from maybe unknowingly breaking the law and
}possibly being prosecuted.  What is so wrong with that?

They can't be "prosecuted", since the software doesn't exceed $1000
retail value.  They might be "sued", but the chance of a lightning
strike hitting them just as they start downloading the file is
somewhat greater than that.



-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."