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Re: Linking = Showing = Transferring?
At 09:18 PM 9/20/95 +0200, you wrote:
>> Browser in the US, text in US, crypto gif imported from UK, both legal.
>>
>> Browser outside US, text in US, crypto gif imported from UK, both legal.
>>
>> See a flaw in that?
>
>Not directly, but... what if for some strange reason the image is routed
>through US gateways on its way from the UK to, for example, Germany?
>I mean, The Net (tm) is a strange beast, and you can rarely tell which way
>the message flows... you can't even DO anything about it.
It can get pretty weird. A friend did a traceroute on a site across town.
It was relayed half-way across the world to get there. (Through Poland or
some such absurdity.)
It seems that no matter what you do, you are breaking the law...
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