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Don't get me wrong, I favor as free a disribution of ideas and information
as possible, but I occassionally play "devil's advocate" as a
brainstorming technique to explore the implications of often overlooked
viewpoints. Looking at it from a copyright holder's point of view — if the
picture was not there to download, the connect time might not have
occurred. Therefore a profit was made. CompuServe must feel that downloads
are profitable or else they wouldn't have there policies of free upload
time or of the restrictions on passing along downloads to non-subscribers.
(or did that change? I haven't kept close track of those things in the
past.) I know what you mean about the lawyers — getting two to agree on a
lot of things would be a miracle. Perhaps we could get one of the Supreme
Court Justices in a CO….. (mind wandering off into the clouds!)