Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site loral.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcc6!loral!ian From: ian@loral.UUCP (Ian Kaplan) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: End of Joe Bob Posting Message-ID: <567@loral.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 20:01:41 EDT Article-I.D.: loral.567 Posted: Thu Oct 18 20:01:41 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 12:46:59 EDT References: <978@ut-ngp.UUCP>, <482@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: Loral Instruments, San Diego Lines: 22 I too miss the Joe Bob postings. However I think that those of you who object to their removal from the net are suggesting that someone else do something that you would not do. If the copyright holder found out, which is bound to happen sooner or later, at very least there would be a stern letter from the copyright holder's lawerys. There would also be a very real posibility of a law suit. Even if the suit did not succeed, there is a substancial cost in defending the case. Many of those in print take the same dim view of their work being reproduced without their permission that we in software take toward software pirates. Finally reproducing things on the net can not be viewed in the same way as lending someone a book or newpaper. Putting something on the net is similar to publishing. Ian Kaplan Loral Data Flow Group Loral Instrumentaion ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdcc6!loral!ian or ARPA to noscvax!sdcsvax!sdcc6!loral!ian