Does information want to be free?

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For those interested, there is an article in the latest Scientific American
about copyright laws and how they will be applied to the Internet.  It used
the banned French book about the former president as an example of just how
difficult it is to regulate information.  It also addresses whether routers
(or analogously anonymous remailers) should be held liable for any copyright
violations that may pass through them.

- -- Mark

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Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 14-Jun-96 Does information want to
be.. by "Mark M."@voicenet.com 
> For those interested, there is an article in the latest Scientific American
> about copyright laws and how they will be applied to the Internet.  It used
> the banned French book about the former president as an example of just how
> difficult it is to regulate information.  It also addresses whether routers
> (or analogously anonymous remailers) should be held liable for any copyright
> violations that may pass through them.

ObPlug: _Le Grand Secret_ is at <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~declan/le-secret/>.

Last month I inteviewed a French government official in conjunction with
an article I was writing. I confess I was amused by how he described
those Internet anarchists who delighted in publicizing books that should
in fact be restricted.

-Declan