[thelist] Smart Tag Not

John Meyer john_meyer at geocities.com
Fri Jun 15 14:47:37 CDT 2001


At 02:32 PM 6/15/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>I would think that there is a army of copyright attorneys chomping at the bit.
>
>What is the difference between:
>
>A. Me dynamically modifying the content of your website and redistributing 
>that content from my website.
>
>B. Creating an application that does the same thing from the desktop.
>
>The whole concept seems so surreal that it seems as though it might be a 
>smokescreen for something even more evil ...
>
>But maybe we should just hush up and hope it is the last act in the MS 
>farce, found at warmonger.net - your comments were insightful.
>

Yeah, but you have to remember, copyright attorneys only go after things 
that are popular, such as Napster, not things that are unpopular, like 
Microsoft*

Obligatory MS bash of the day


John Meyer
john_meyer at geocities.com
Programmer


If we didn't have Microsoft, we'd have to blame ourselves for all of our 
programs crashing





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