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To: steve who wrote (5886)	12/20/1997 4:50:00 PM
From: James Baker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 26039

Steve, By rights copyrighted material should never have been reproduced on the net although we all know that it is regularly. Certainly there is no problem with posting a link to the material- afterall the owner has posted it publically for others to read - there is no law that each person must find his/her own way to everything that they read. Jim

To: steve who wrote (5886)	12/21/1997 11:11:00 PM
From: David	Respond to of 26039

Steve . . . OFF TOPIC . . . I don't think that this criminal law affects SI posters who are not trying to manipulate the price of a stock. Like most criminal laws, it requires criminal intent -- in this case a desire to post "for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain," which would be absent on this thread, for example. I can think of other situations in which the law could be applied to posters , such as pump and dump artists or short sellers. Even those cases would be very hard to make. Buck . . . OFF TOPIC . . . I wouldn't worry too much about the FBI coming after you. They always need a warrant (i.e., they always need to persuade a judge that they have a reason to look). What's going on is they are trying to avoid having messages sent which are impossible to search, even after getting a search warrant. There are vanishingly few search warrants issued in comparison to messages sent in commerce, and none would be issued for the FBI to look just for the hell of it. And they have nowhere near the resources or desire to turn us into a police state.