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Re: [dvd-discuss] Content neutral?
- To: dvd-discuss(at)cyber.law.harvard.edu
- Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Content neutral?
- From: "John Zulauf" <johnzu(at)ia.nsc.com>
- Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 10:43:38 -0700
- References: <200112011653.fB1Grnq03864@lumbercartel.com>
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"D. C. Sessions" wrote:
>
> Maybe someone can help me here. I have in my hand a
> piece of paper printed with text. I wish to place this text
> on the Web. According to the 2nd Circuit, an injunction
> against my placing this text on the Web is content-neutral.
>
> Does this mean that it doesn't matter what is on that piece
> of paper?
Great question. How can an injuction claim to be neutral the content of
that paper determines it's postability. If that paper contains a od -h
of decss.exe (and you type it in using a hew editor it's illegal. If if
it's a copy of the constitution (or nearly anything else) it is not. So
here we have content-neutral regulation based on the content of the
text....
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