"billwg" wrote in news:S%Ocf.1326$Xx4.202
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"Dave in San Diego" wrote in message
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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
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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,

Read all about it he
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/h...sup_01_17.html

Exactly:

(a) Criminal Infringement.- Any person who infringes a copyright
willfully either-
(1) for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain, or
(2) by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means,
during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or
more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than
$1,000,

My point, which I failed to make obvious, was that it's not copyrighted
material anyway.

TITLE 17, CHAPTER 1

§ 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.

Dave in San Diego