From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 4 02:18:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7CCA16A4CE for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 02:18:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web53909.mail.yahoo.com (web53909.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.36.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 63FAA43D46 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 02:18:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stheg_olloydson@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20041004021810.73079.qmail@web53909.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.210.26.152] by web53909.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 03 Oct 2004 19:18:10 PDT Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 19:18:10 -0700 (PDT) From: stheg olloydson To: Mike.Jeays@rogers.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun (pushing the thread even more OT) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 02:18:12 -0000 it was said: >As a purely theoretical question - is it possible to be guilty of an >offence by being in possession of a digital image of a currency bill? >At what resolution does it become an offence? Hello, This exactly answers your questions: http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/banknotes/legislation/repro.html Seems like possession of _any_ digital image of Canadian paper currency is a crime. To see what the rules are for other countries: http://www.rulesforuse.org For an interesting news item on this topic: http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/10/01/copying.dollars.ap/index.html HTH, Stheg _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com