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August 30, 2001
The Filter Presents- A Commitment to Candid Speech: A Reply to Roger Parloff
The Filter Presents- A Commitment to Candid Speech: A Reply to Roger Parloff
...we don't arrest employees of Smith and Wesson when a gun they produced kills a police officer. We don't criminalize the production of VCRs just because some use their VCRs in ways copyright law would disapprove. No doubt, the use of tools to commit a crime often enhances the punishment for that crime -- use a gun to rob a store, and your sentence is drastically increased. But where technology has both a legitimate and illegitimate use, the law targets the illegitimate use, and not the technology.
Posted by at August 30, 2001 07:04 AM