Charlie Wolf wrote in
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On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 20:09:46 GMT, "billwg" wrote:


"Jeroen Wenting" jwenting at hornet dot demon dot nl wrote in message
...
Sorry, but sharing copyrighted information is a criminal offense.

Nonsense. Copyright violations are not criminal unless they are done
for financial gain or exceed personal copying of more than $1000 worth
of material in any 180 period. No one in the history of the country has
been prosecuted for non-commercial copying. While that irks the RIAA,
it is still a fact of life.
I've never heard that "loose" an interpretation of the copyright laws,
however....

many of manuals he's after (military) are For Official Use Only (FOUO)
and aren't for general dissemenation to anyone asking for them on the
internet.
Regards,

Also note: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/h...17/usc_sec_17_
00000105----000-.html

TITLE 17 CHAPTER 1 § 105

§ 105. Subject matter of copyright: United States Government works

Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the
United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded
from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment,
bequest, or otherwise.