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Subject:RE: What level of censorship ... From:Kim Roper <kim -dot- roper -at- pixelink -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 9 Jan 2004 14:03:31 -0500
T. Word Smith wrote:
> There are lots of legit. artistic and marketing
> reasons one would want to copy and reproduce money.
Yup. Non-fraudulent purposes exist. No disagreement, there.
> And, if Adobe does decide to enforce the law, are they
> also going to stop me from scanning nude pictures, say
> a pic of my baby-daughter ... or is FrameMaker going
> to prevent you using "Al Quaida" in text because some
> use of that word and associations with that
> organization are illegal, etc.?
We've already had a similar charge laid in a case here, where a store
employee (WalMart?) reported a customer to the police for submitting images
of his naked, young child for photo development.
I believe the charges were dropped. Sorry, I don't have time to look up the
reference.
