Charging the net...

[CNEWS MUST DIE!]

thomson at hub.toronto.edu (Brian Thomson) writes:
>                                             If the person who posts 
> does so with the consent of the copyright holder, then the copy is
> authorized.  Once that question is settled, the copyright holder has no
> more control (none based on copyright, at least) on what happens to the
> copy, except regarding its further duplication.  [of course, this may
> differ in the UK]

Yes, but does uudecoding and uncompressing count as further duplication?  You
have, after all, made an extra copy of the program by doing so.


mathew