RE: [dvd-discuss] Skylarov indicted for trafficing and conspiracy.

[Michael.A.Rolenz(at)aero.org]

"Make no mistake. This is our passport to the gallows. For if we don't 
surely all hang together, we surely will all hang seperately"  B.Franklin.




Richard Hartman <hartman@onetouch.com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy A Erwin [mailto:jerwin@gmu.edu]
...
> 
> On Wednesday, August 29, 2001, at 12:39 PM, Michael.A.Rolenz@aero.org 
> wrote:
> 
> > Associating to perform a criminal activity is a conspiracy 
> (even if an
> > associate is does not perform a criminal activity themselves.). The 
> > beauty
> > of a conspiracy charge is that it allows them to add 
> unnamed persons and
> > they can invalidate the defense that He's just an employee doing
> > programming and a student- He contributed to this henious 
> criminal act.
> 
> Erm. right. Does contributing to a mailing list (vlc-devel, for 
> instance) count as conspiracy?
> 

Yes.  If "discussion of circumvention of federal law" ever becomes
a crime in it's own right, we're all conspiritors.

-- 
-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!