IP: Re: Two on Avoiding prosecution of the DMCA (Ferguson, RISKS-21.60): [risks] Risks Digest 21.62

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "Lawrence L. Andrew" <Andrew () macomb com>
> To: <farber () cis upenn edu>
> Subject: Re: Two on Avoiding prosecution of the DMCA 
> (Ferguson,  RISKS-21.60): [risks] Risks Digest 21.62
> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 01:20:03 -0500
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>
> Dave,
> Following the governments line of reasoning (as alluded to below) leads to
> some interesting conclusions.  For instance, I know a number of Accounting
> professors at several universities who teach their students how to commit
> fraud in the classroom so they will recognize it when they see it in real
> life.  Following this line of thinking (below), this sort of instruction
> would necessarily cease, because if students were not taught to commit
> fraud, then they would never learn it & nobody could do it.  So naturally it
> would never happen again!
> Similarly with Chemistry, Physics, and Engineering, if we don't teach about
> the reactive properties of various chemicals and compounds, etc., never
> again will anyone build any sort of explosive device!
>
> All our government wants is to usher in World Peace!  Just think - all the
> aggression and illicit business practices of the world, wiped out in a
> generation or two!  and we were too naive to recognize their efforts!   Why
> I'm certain this must be the same thing the FBI is trying to accomplish with
> their Carnivore system, because surely they would never intentionally
> infringe upon anyone's rights.....  <wink>
>
> Larry Andrew
> Andrew () macomb com
> =================
> In America, anyone can be President.  That's one of the risks you take.
> Adlai Stephenson
> =================
> Lawrence L. Andrew
> Instructor in Information Management
> Western Illinois University



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