Re: Does information want to be free?

["Declan B. McCullagh" <declan+@CMU.EDU>]

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