pirating, etc.

[George E. Lehmann]

In article <2969 at gryphon.CTS.COM> arthur at pnet02.cts.com (Arthur L. Rubin) writes:
>kudla at pawl20.pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) writes:
>>...Also, like an audio recording, any 
>>computer-based record cannot be used as evidence in a court of law.
>This is news to me.  Can any lawyers confirm or deny.  It seems to me that, if

Last year, in mod.risks, several reports about an individual in England being
prosecuted for planting a "time-bomb" in a software system indicated the judge
had ruled inadmissable a number of computer records because they had not been
properly stored away.  This implies that had the police there properly locked
up the evidence (backup tapes in this instance) to insure against their being
altered, that they would have been admissable as evidence...

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