Re: Why Is the Supply of IDIOT Mountain Bikers ENDLESS???

On 18 Jun 2008 21:45:28 -0700, nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Bill Z.)
wrote:

>Mike Vandeman <mjvande@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>
>> On 14 Jun 2008 23:47:17 -0700, nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Bill Z.)
>> wrote:
>> 
>> >> No one knows what it means, including the author. Surely, you must
>> >> have more im****tant things to do? Oh, I forgot, it's you. Forget I
>> >> said that. I KNOW you don't have anything better to do.
>> >
>> >ROTFLMAO.  *You* get caught violating U.S. copyright laws and instead
>> >of cleaning up your act, you try to attack the messenger. Both of
them.
>> 
>> Right. A victimless "crime".
>
>Not true - if the author decided to publish the email he sent you in a
>mountain-biking magazine (for example), having it appear first on
>usenet would reduce the interest the magazine would have in it.  So
>you did violate the law in a way that could hurt someone economically,
>at least in principle.

Not in reality, where most of us live. Show us the marketable part of
that email! This should be good!
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