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RE: [dvd-discuss] Skylarov indicted for trafficing and conspiracy.
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- Subject: RE: [dvd-discuss] Skylarov indicted for trafficing and conspiracy.
- From: Michael.A.Rolenz(at)aero.org
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 08:58:42 -0700
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"Make no mistake. This is our passport to the gallows. For if we don't
surely all hang together, we surely will all hang seperately" B.Franklin.
Richard Hartman <[email protected]>
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08/29/01 11:08 AM
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Subject: RE: [dvd-discuss] Skylarov indicted for trafficing and conspiracy.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy A Erwin [mailto:[email protected]]
...
>
> On Wednesday, August 29, 2001, at 12:39 PM, [email protected]
> wrote:
>
> > Associating to perform a criminal activity is a conspiracy
> (even if an
> > associate is does not perform a criminal activity themselves.). The
> > beauty
> > of a conspiracy charge is that it allows them to add
> unnamed persons and
> > they can invalidate the defense that He's just an employee doing
> > programming and a student- He contributed to this henious
> criminal act.
>
> Erm. right. Does contributing to a mailing list (vlc-devel, for
> instance) count as conspiracy?
>
Yes. If "discussion of circumvention of federal law" ever becomes
a crime in it's own right, we're all conspiritors.
--
-Richard M. Hartman
[email protected]
186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!