Amateur Action BBS bust - extradition (fwd)

[Stanton McCandlish]

Update on Amateur Action BBS bust - not very good news.

Forwarded message:
From hkhe...@cup.portal.com Thu Feb 3 15:40:25 1994
To: me...@eff.org
Subject: bbs bust
Message-ID: <94020312...@cup.portal.com>

Just got word a few minutes ago that Robert Thomas (who ran Amatuer
Action BBS) and his wife were picked up on a Federal warrant for
obscenity from Memphis, TN. From what I hear from a local Postal
inspector, they are going to extradited to TN to face charges there
because the Feds have a choice of trying a person at either end of a
transaction.

This really sucks!

I find it akin to busting a pron shop owner in New York for one of his
customers taking "filthy pictures" back to Hicksvill.

In operation Longarm the Feds argued that the person downloading stuff
was responsible for knowing if it was illegal. This at least makes
some sense. But, if BBS owners have to be responsible for knowing the
what is considered obscene in all 50 states and each locality, then the
onramps to the Information Superhighway are going to be choked off by
the most backwater places in the country!

Keith Henson

(The entire tale of AA has been posted. I can repost if more than a
few want it.)

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In article <1994020619...@eff.org>,

Stanton McCandlish <me...@eff.org> wrote:
>I find it akin to busting a pron shop owner in New York for one of his
>customers taking "filthy pictures" back to Hicksvill.

This is beside the point, but... There is a Hicksville on Long Island and
it's not that far from NYC. Now back to the regularly scheduled debate...

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