1995-09-25 Sender: “Craig A. Johnson” <•••@••.•••> Glen Raphael wrote on 22 September: > Maybe ten years from now the net will become a necessity of life, > but it’s certainly not there yet. You mention the UN; do you REALLY > think that people in Bangladesh need subsidized net access? And is > this the … Read more…
1995-09-25 Sender: Arun Mehta <•••@••.•••> I’ve followed the discussion on electronic voting carefully,, and have more than a passing interest in the area. In the 1989 federal elections in India, electronic voting machines were to be used in 150 “sensitive” constituencies (where booth capturing was frequent — we have an interesting democracy). An opposition party … Read more…
1995-09-25 Sender: •••@••.••• (Sandra Bernstein) Not just computer-generated. We had a case here in Toronto Canada where a visual artist, Eli Langer, created some paintings and drawings that portrayed nightmarish images of child abuse. They were displayed in a reputable alternative gallery. After a critique in the local paper, the police seized the paintings and … Read more…
1995-09-25 Sender: “Craig A. Johnson” <•••@••.•••> Kurt Guntheroth wrote: > > There are people on this list who are so afraid that a monopoly > might dominate cyberspace that they are unwilling even to consider > market pricing of content or service. I don’t know what these > people propose instead, or even if they … Read more…
1995-09-25 Sender: •••@••.••• (Don Porter) On Sep 22, 1995 01:12:08, ‘Cyber Rights <•••@••.•••>’ wrote: >The following posting is long, so I have cut the major background material (the >part titled “The Jesse Hirsh Case”). However, the whole document is on our ftp >site in the Net-Suppression directory under the name Anarchives-on-Arrest. I >encourage you to … Read more…
1995-09-23 Sender: Lazlo Nibble <•••@••.•••> > I fail to see how competition would increase cost of production. It seems pretty straightforward to me. Say I run a store of some kind. My supplier offers progressive discounts based on the volume of items I purchase — the more I buy from him, the lower my price … Read more…
1995-09-23 Introduction from moderator: You’ve all heard of PGP, and most of you know that the many governments are trying in one way or another (the Clipper standard in the U.S.) to undermine it and substitute a form of encryption that the government can crack. The battle escalated on September 18 when a group called … Read more…
1995-09-23 Sender: •••@••.••• I enjoyed this rather long post. Mr. Bradley makes some interesting points. They seem to mirror Mr. Schreibman on the importance of setting the structure of the Internet to insure access. ess I wonder if the natural gas pipeline is not a better analogy to the Internet than the railroad. The deregulation … Read more…
1995-09-23 Sender: •••@••.••• (David S. Bennahum) >The measure would expand the definition of child pornography to include any >photograph, film, videotape or computer image produced by any means, >including electronically by computer, if it depicts or appears to depict a >minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct. I would like to write an article about artists … Read more…
1995-09-23 Sender: •••@••.••• ************************************************* THE COMPUTER LAW REPORT ANNOUNCES NEW SERIES ************************************************* The Computer Law Report – the FREE monthly e-mail report for nonlawyers – is beginning an important series on the recently released Clinton Administration White Paper. The White Paper analyzes how intellectual property law applies to cyberspace and makes legislative recommendations to Congress … Read more…