Re: Unauthorized copying of posts

[Jay Gary <jgary @ rmii . com>]

On Mon, 28 Aug 1995, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
> Well, there's an interesting twist - since NNTP is a system where 
> unlimited copying is how things work, by posting to usenet you implicitly 
> are saying "this thing can be copied everywhere".  

It sounds good at first, but by this logic, we would say that because a 
newspaper is copied 100,000 times and distributed to your door 
step, it will give others the right to copy it and distribute it. NOT.