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Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd)
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 15:53:31 -0400
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:41:02 PDT, Randy Bush said:
Somewhere along with the power to vote particular politicians in or out must come some respect for the laws those people create, even the ones we don't think are perfect.if i and others had followed your advice, african-americans would still ride in the back of the bus, we would still have atmospheric atomic testing, and we would probably still be losing american and viet namese lives in viet nam and those on the streets and campuses of the country who disagreed with a bunch of now-convicted felons.
So you're saying, for instance, that the *proper* thing to do if you disagree with the anti-circumvention rules that the DMCA added to 17 USC 1201 is to just go ahead and break them, or that the proper thing to do is to lobby to get the law fixed? I'd suggest that the right thing to do is to lobby your congresscreatures, unless you're a visiting Russian programmer who wants to be a test case.... Yes, sometimes breaking the law in order to force a test case so there's a judicial review of the constitutionality is required. But unless you're trying to be either a test case or a martyr, you're stuck with the law until it's changed. -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech
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- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Paul Vixie (Oct 17)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Sean Donelan (Oct 18)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) William Allen Simpson (Oct 18)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Sean Donelan (Oct 18)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI ... bmanning (Oct 18)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) batz (Oct 18)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) William Allen Simpson (Oct 18)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) mike harrison (Oct 18)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Paul Vixie (Oct 19)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Randy Bush (Oct 19)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 19)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) steve uurtamo (Oct 19)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Niels Bakker (Oct 20)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Joseph T. Klein (Oct 19)
- RE: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Greg Pendergrass (Oct 19)
- RE: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Mike Batchelor (Oct 19)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) mscramer (Oct 23)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Paul Vixie (Oct 24)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Steven J. Sobol (Oct 22)
- Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) Jeff Gehlbach (Oct 18)