On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 23:16, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Joe Wreschnig <piman@debian.org> writes: > > > I'm not aware of any law that says "if you give someone media that is > > only X% otherwise illegal to give to them, then it's not illegal", in > > any country. Is this actually the case somewhere in Europe? > > Well, it's true in the US, sort of, though the parameters matter. In > general, there are a lot of things which are not a problem if they are > de minimis; and whether something is de minimis depends on its > relative size in context. Yes, sorry; I was ambiguous in my point. I should have said "collection of media" rather than "media". My opinion is that de minimis would apply if (for example) I wrote a novel with a sex scene in it. The sex scene is not independent of the rest of the (non-sexy) novel, and though the scene is erotic, the novel is not. On the other hand, I don't think this arguement would apply to a Debian CD, because (more or less) each element is independent. It would be the equivalent of giving a child a stack of 20 magazines, of which one is wholly pornographic. (I will happily defer to those that better understand the laws involved in this issue; my only point is that we should be considering this exclusively as a legal problem and not a religious/ethical one.) -- Joe Wreschnig <piman@debian.org>
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