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Originally posted by FightThisPatent
exactly! the defense side has some of those same files you are talking about.
always looking for more, especially non-porn ones (note, a judge and jury will end up watching this stuff, better if it wasn't so graphic)
Anyone in contact with "old school" SYSOP, send them my way so i can chat about their archive of files prior to 1990.
Fight The Patent!
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Heh, the problem with that is that back then, the only video files worth spending 30 mins downloading (300 baud back then... .3K bits per second) was porn. Good luck finding any non-porn streaming video files that were downloaded back then; I never saw any, but then again, I never looked for any.
BTW, I think your quest for oldschool BBS SYSOPs is a *great* idea, but for testimony only... who the hell has the old floppies from computers that were mothballed/discarded over 17 years ago? And if someone still could get an old system to even boot, would they be able to get their BBS to work again in a court of law to prove Prior Art (and disprove later tampering)?
It's an uphill battle against well funded and very smart extortionists, but it is a good battle, and one that is historically and IMO morally correct.
