[8867] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: JURIS - DOJ rejects TAP FOIA Request (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eliot Lear)
Wed Dec 8 17:21:48 1993
From: lear@yeager.corp.sgi.com (Eliot Lear)
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1993 14:16:15 -0800
In-Reply-To: James Love <love@essential.org>
To: James Love <love@essential.org>, Eliot Lear <lear@yeager.corp.sgi.com>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
If the data were stored in electronic form in the first place, this
would be a non issue. As is it would seem to me that these companies
provide a valuable service to the grovernment, for which they should
be compensated.
I don't understand what are you are trying to accomplish by attacking
Westlaw when you should be attempting to get legislation through so
that our government keeps its own databases, or contracts the work
out such that the data remains owned by, and accessible to, the
people. Indeed if you succeed in the former, but not in the latter,
you won't even be able to pay for the data.
--
Eliot Lear
[lear@sgi.com]
