Text 5687, 82 rader
Skriven 2005-03-01 08:30:57 av Roy Witt (1:10/22)
   Kommentar till text 5671 av Thom LaCosta (1:261/1352.0)
Ärende: FidoNews 22:08 [00/06]: The Front Page
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Hello Thom.

01 Mar 33 04:42, you wrote to me:

 RW>>>> No biggy. I wouldn't want to be affliliated with anyone who
 RW>>>> advertises copyrighted material on his website. Who knows, maybe
 RW>>>> he'd drop some of that on my system and call the copyright police.
 TL>>> Is he selling the copywritten material, or simply offering it for
 TL>>> downloading?
 RW>>> AFAIK, it's free for the downloading.
 TL>> So it's not a commercial venture...just a rip off of commercial
 TL>> products.
 RW>> Yeup. I posted a list of what's there in this packet.
 TL> Interesting list.....

Very interesting.

 RW>> We also have complicancy from Dossche. He says file a PC and see
 RW>> how far it gets. :o) Of course, my intent wasn't to get any *Cs
 RW>> into it, as there is nothing they can do per policy. However, one
 RW>> would think that they'd want to stop him from denigrating Fidonet
 RW>> with a website where you can join in Fidonet echomail and download
 RW>> copywritten materials all in one place.

 TL> Well, Ward might have a point.....I know of a Fidonet member who is
 TL> not a citizen of the US who supports the release of a convicted
 TL> murderer...there is no direct and official relationship between ones
 TL> persoanl life and Fidonet Policy.

That's why I told Dossche that the *Cs of Fidonet should do something
about this criminal activity before it affects Fidonet. You would think
that such activity would be frowned upon, even in Z2.

 RW>>> Well, if you had followed the url I posted here a while ago, you
 RW>>> could have seen what was available and drawn your own conclusions
 RW>>> on that. Of course, since he was able to fix his system to recieve
 RW>>> pings now, maybe he could hide the link better.

 TL>> Oh I'm sure this some logical explanation for having those links
 TL>> up....it may be that we are not sophisticated or learned enough to
 TL>> understand the logic.

 RW>> That's got to be it. I never thought of it until you mentioned
 RW>> that. So much for my sophistication of such matters.

 TL> That' OK Roy...nit everyone can have the rich background and superior
 TL> education that allows them to realize that while mere mortals think
 TL> the sun rises in the east that it really rises from the north.

I gonna have to get up earlier to see this.

 TL>> Could it be that the links were simply something he had intended for
 TL>> internal use?

 RW>> Nope. Go to http://felten.dyndns.org, click on 'Some moving
 RW>> pictures' that link http://felten.dyndns.org/movies.html, will take
 RW>> you to a list of movies. They're not downloadable there. But, if
 RW>> you scroll down the page and find the TT and click on it, you'll be
 RW>> linked with the downloadable page
 RW>> http://felten.dyndns.org/SECRET2.HTM -- or you can go directly to
 RW>> the download page by entering the 'secret2' link in your browser.

 TL> I'll be danged!  it might have been clearer if the page had been
 TL> called warez2.html or something like that.

Yeah, but 'secret' gives it that alluring touch.

 TL>> Considering how Orwellian logic was used to explain the Zone 2 style
 TL>> of moderation, I can hardly wait to see how the links you cited are
 TL>> explained away.

 RW>> Nobody seems to care. I opened up the subject in FNS, but only got
 RW>> a token of interest.

 TL> Could be that the folks there relaize that being a scofflaw in rela
 TL> life may not taint ones Fidonet reputation.

That seems to be so...


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