Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.137 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.74; '*S*': 0.01; 'advocate': 0.07; 'budget.': 0.09; 'from:addr:rosuav': 0.16; 'from:name:chris angelico': 0.16; 'guilty': 0.16; 'unwise': 0.16; 'usenet': 0.16; 'subject:python': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; '(or': 0.24; 'post': 0.26; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; "doesn't": 0.30; 'charged': 0.30; 'subject:list': 0.30; 'message-id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.30; "i'm": 0.30; 'url:wiki': 0.31; 'public.': 0.31; 'url:wikipedia': 0.31; 'anyone': 0.31; 'fri,': 0.33; "can't": 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'really': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'actions': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'anything': 0.39; 'legally': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'simple': 0.61; 'back': 0.62; 'more': 0.64; 'biggest': 0.67; 'legal': 0.71; 'to,': 0.72; 'jul': 0.74; 'crime.': 0.84; 'walking': 0.91; 'justice': 0.93; '2013': 0.98 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=SGEs3KbBnhC1WXG9ZbJAD8E/Z1WgAs8lm9tl2P2cyIY=; b=y7Rm+wZa1QSU/aP0Zcxm3UGQ3JtZhX4Sp4oAHmTZ3yw10KLdGHD2j1WlG7O6VBZnVH flRk3UgJYgaB/fxh2XzbMIeNSWzrYrOKby8z99tetPITOQ/ckZdoHMi5gOeZLzvFWmDd 3DW+leh83bWAOpR/r/8NqgS0fRxpgdX2qarc7Yp19AK8E0+OZT9xRwG9/v0W6UwgiArN XlXq2HOxP/Emu1crYLX3p87BhsCGXBB0mhtRs1hYx1I8GAO8H0RHT5+0ejbjRawUzS5Q O015qMC2LWuPvrZdjvMYTJE7BllrXK+6FpZhU9u9DmsubA707y6PmzkVGTjrjPuK3x+W 6Fww== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.52.16.105 with SMTP id f9mr4763375vdd.28.1373008680395; Fri, 05 Jul 2013 00:18:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 17:18:00 +1000 Subject: Re: Illegal suggestions on python list From: Chris Angelico To: python-list@python.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 19 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1373008689 news.xs4all.nl 15872 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:35755 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:49935 On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 4:47 PM, zoom wrote: > Probably... > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#JSTOR Things are always more complicated than any simple Usenet post can do justice to, and it'll often come down to who has the biggest legal budget. Since he was never actually found guilty (or so a cursory reading of that Wikipedia page suggests), that can't really be taken as proof; anyone can be charged with anything if someone can trump up some plausible evidence (no, I'm not completely cynical, why do you ask?), but that doesn't make walking and chewing gum at the same time a crime. Anyway, this is all technicalities; it's still unwise to advocate legally and/or morally shady actions in public. You never know what people will find back years later. ChrisA