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A thought about H.R. 2281
Unlike Rick Anderson, I have to admit that I haven't read the text of H.R. 2281, and I share a certain amount of his ambivalence. But I have some questions. Just because we make the breaking of the *barriers* to copying/accessing information illegal, does that make it any easier to detect violators? If it doesn't, what's the point? If it does, then why can't the law be written in such a way that the act of breaking the barriers isn't necessarily illegal, but does allow investigation of the use of the data that was gotten at. If the use was fair use - no prosecution, if it wasn't -- it was illegal. Am I being extradorinarily naive here? Is it a dangerous precedent to set, in terms of civil liberties, to have an action (breaking the barriers) set up a diminution in my right to be presumed innocent? I'm sure I'm missing something obvious. ------------------------------------------------------------- Kimberly Parker Electronic Publishing and Collections Librarian Yale University Library 130 Wall Street Voice (203) 432-0067 P.O. Box 208240 Fax (203) 432-8527 New Haven, CT 06520-8240 mailto:kimberly.parker@yale.edu -------------------------------------------------------------
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