IP: Banned French Book Online

[Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

This is getting to be an interesting use of the Internet. For example the
WSJ put the previously sealed tobbaco testimony on their web page to make it
public (I suspect so it would be hard to surpress again). The net is now the
prefered place for the "Pentagon Papers".


Dave




Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 17:24:17 -0500 (EST)
From: "Declan B. McCullagh" <declan+ () cmu edu>
To: cypherpunks () toad com


As Tim May noted a few messages ago, the French government censored a
book written by the physician to their late president, Francois
Mitterrand. An enterprising fellow in eastern France scanned it into 189
pages of GIF files and put it online.


Now the French police have arrested him, ostensibly on unrelated charges.


I'm putting the complete version of the banned book, _Le Grand Secret_,
online -- you can find it on the following identical sites:


http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena/contrib/bitbucket2/le-grand-secret/secret/
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/declan/www/le-secret/complete/
http://robotweb.ri.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/declan/www/le-secret/complete/
http://mousa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~stephane/secret/


Since the combined size of the files is 9 MB, Seth Finkelstein and I
stripped the images from 4 bpp to 1 bpp (greyscale to monochrome), and
reduced the combined size to 2 MB. The stripped GIF files are on:


   http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/declan/www/le-secret/reduced/
   http://robotweb.ri.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/declan/www/le-secret/complete/
   http://web.mit.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/declan/www/le-secret/complete/
   http://joc.mit.edu/le-secret/reduced-gifs.tar [tar file]
   http://joc.mit.edu/le-secret/reduced-gifs.tar.gz [compressed tar file]


Related stories and commentary are available at the following identical sites:


   http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~declan/
   http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/declan/www/le-secret/
   http://www.well.com/~declan/le-secret/
   http://robotweb.ri.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/declan/www/le-secret/
   http://web.mit.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/declan/www/le-secret/


-Declan