[10006] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
RE: West sued by Matthew Bender
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Sugarman)
Thu Feb 3 20:59:12 1994
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 1994 20:52:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Alan Sugarman <sugarman@panix.com>
To: cohnen@rockvax.rockefeller.edu
Cc: COM-PRIV@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <00979855.F7B3B1E0.30257@RUVMS2.ROCKEFELLER.EDU>
Well, this has to do with the privatization of government information.
Privatizing the citation is the same as privatizing the information. The
internet has value only if valuable information travels across the net.
If essential government information such as the laws that your are obliged
to follow are privatized then the value of the internet itself is diminished.
Moreover, the Internet permits communication on issues such as this
without the impairing effect of powerful organizations on what is
disseminated in the press. So, this is using the Internet the way it
should be.
But, if this is not the subject of com-priv, I am sorry. There have been
many messages about this topic and EDGAR and even the membership of the
Advisory Committee to Gore which includes one private sector publihser --
the president of West.
On Thu, 3 Feb 1994, Stuart Cohnen wrote:
> Who cares? What's this got to do with the com-priv list?
> We're too busy knocking ANS to worry about a few sharks (I mean
> lawyers) and what they are doing!
>
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