1995-09-12 Sender: •••@••.••• In a message dated 95-09-08 17:37:45 EDT, you write: > Many believe that bringing the NII to every person is an important > goal, An answer may lie in converting the voting booths which populate the polling places which we use now. Instead of a paper ballot with a small punch to … Read more…
1995-09-12 Sender: “Steve Eppley” <•••@••.•••> Connie Page wrote: >They feel that rather than have to prove to the court that the >evidence on disk or tape is what was on the hard drive of a particular >computer, they will simply present the entire computer system. This way >there are fewer problems in proof. This evidence … Read more…
1995-09-12 Sender: Arun Mehta <•••@••.•••> > Summary from the moderator: > > If people on this list like this kind of direction-setting, I’ll try > to do it regularly. Here’s one who does. Great idea. > Overly zealous raids > > they didn’t have to > confiscate the systems. To prove copyright infringement, all they … Read more…
1995-09-12 [The following was written by Wally Bowen of Citizens for Media Literacy in Asheville, N.C. Copyright 1995. Cross-posting permitted.] The spate of media mergers are being announced in anticipation of passage of The Telecommunications Deregulation and Competition Act of 1995. This legislation is the first re-writing of our communications laws since the Communications Act … Read more…
1995-09-11 Sender: Stanton McCandlish <•••@••.•••> For those that didn’t see it in it’s entirety, I’ll reproduced Mark’s original fully. It’s not that long, so no big deal. Mark: Esther, Barlow and Stewart were all invited, just like you were. There’s not conspiracy here. EFF does not have any formal ties with PFF, and I think … Read more…
1995-09-11 Sender: Arun Mehta <•••@••.•••> > Sender: Vigdor Schreibman – FINS <•••@••.•••> > > debunking the ideas of monopoly capitalism. The only defense against this > plague on our lives, however, is democracy: empowerment of the individual … > People seem to > be hopelessly stuck in the old self-interest, marketplace, monopoly > capitalist ideology, … Read more…
1995-09-11 Pointer from moderator: Another posting about the Church of Scientology raid on the Dutch xs4all Internet provider (which was mentioned on this mailing list a few days ago) is now on our ftp site. I put it at the end of our growing file called Church-of-Scientology-Raids, in the directory Net-Suppression. Andy ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Posted by … Read more…
1995-09-10 Sender: “Steve Eppley” <•••@••.•••> James Brazell wrote: >The policy is called “first right of usage.” Simply by using the domain >name you have a legal right to pre-empt a trade mark filled after you are >using it. I just went through this and lost our domain name….. I don’t understand your final sentence, Jim. … Read more…
1995-09-10 Sender: George White <•••@••.•••> It is indeed helpful to step back and look at the major issues from time to time, as online discussions tend to wander if left alone. On the question of universal access: if you think about the US 50 to 100 years ago, libraries were being created in areas with … Read more…
1995-09-10 Sender: •••@••.••• (Glen Raphael) > Cyberspace Inc and the Robber Baron Age The current consensus view of economists is that the 19th century “trusts” were generally pro-consumer and breaking them up was anti-consumer. Anyone who still believes that the “Robber Barons” were universally harmful and that government intervention protected us from them then or … Read more…