[BC] Arrested for just telling people where to findCopywrited material.

[Thomas G. Osenkowsky]

 > You would be hard pressed to find any technical information in what I
thought were technical
 > information repositories: The local library.
 > There was a grand opening down the block of a new Library and I attended.
I couldn't find one
 > technical book on electronics or ham radio.  In the past I used to find
great libraries of music, say
 > piano music and such, nothing like that was to be found.  But shelves and
shelves of romance novels
 > and fiction were to be had.

Technical (and any other) information can be misused.
As soon as computers became popular, so did hacking,
fraud, pornography, spam and other malicious usages.
People can misuse technical and ham radio information
to construct pirate radio transmitters, CB "freeband"
transmitters and linear amplifiers, cellphone/radar jammers,
etc.

Romance and fiction novels allow people to relax and
indulge in the comfort and privacy of their own homes,
while driving their cars or riding the subways. Technical
information abound on the Internet. Since nearly all Internet
delivery methods fall under the jurisdiction of the FCC, we
as Americans can rest assured the content is true, accurate
and sanitized as well as controlled. That is one reason we
pay taxes. The above is not true of libraries.

Tom Osenkowsky, CPBE