Re: Java and avoiding software piracy?

Twisted wrote:

You seem to forget that one and only one of those "rights" is
enshrined in the constitution. Specifically, the First Amendment.

Usenet is not a venue for free speech. Usenet is a service provided by
and paid for by the various server operators, and has a number of rules
attached to it that say, for example, that spamming or some other abuse
can get your article cancelled by some netnews administrator. Whether
excessive crossposting or off-topic posts already constitute abuse is
debatable but it is certainly bad behaviour (and I apologize for this OT
post). You also can't go into a hockey club, start rambling on about
football and then cry foul with "free speech" if you get kicked out.

Apart from that, only a fraction of the Usenet-carrying servers are
located in the U.S., so your "first amendment" defense would only affect
American servers anyways.
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