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Re: Reply regarding CyberSquatting comments

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From: SB Music <scjb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: BB Mailing List <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 13 April 2000 07:20
Subject: Reply regarding CyberSquatting comments



Hmm.  Touched a raw nerve here, I think, Mr Green.

>Phil Green said : "here, here (in support of the 4 letter expletive)- as an
>IT manager Cybersquatters really get my goat"

Steven Booth replied:
>
>Well my response to that is :

 (snip)

>It's not exactly a criminal offence is it ? In fact it's not even something
>which is morally wrong - it just annoys you, but I don't think that gives
>you the right to publicly chastise me does it ?

This business of buying up of domain names, only to offer them for resale at
an inflated price, has a more conventional equivalent - ticket touting.  And
if a ticket tout deprived band enthusiasts of the chance to buy, say,
tickets to a Black Dyke concert, only to offer them to the same deprived
band enthusiasts at the concert hall door at an inflated price, I can't help
feeling that the British Bandsman's postbag would be bulging!

No, it isn't criminal.  It isn't even a civil offence.  But I think many
people would consider it morally dubious.  To quote a former British Prime
Minister in a different context:  it is the unacceptable face of capitalism.

>From your friendly Devil's Advocate

Alec

PS This is much more interesting than mouthpieces or trombonists.


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