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Secret trade agreement will require searches of laptops, MP3 players,and cellphones at airports



 
 
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Old June 10th, 2008, 02:10 PM posted to alt.politics.liberalism,misc.consumers,misc.legal,rec.travel.air,talk.politics.guns
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Default Secret trade agreement will require searches of laptops, MP3 players, and cellphones at airports

krw writes:

"Tried" to? Are you being thick intentionally?


No. The desire was to protect the symbol as a logo with copyright, but it
soon became clear that type designers planed to use it as a typeface glyph
instead, and that pretty much shot holes in the copyright plans.
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Old June 10th, 2008, 11:12 PM posted to alt.politics.liberalism,misc.consumers,misc.legal,rec.travel.air,talk.politics.guns
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Default Secret trade agreement will require searches of laptops, MP3 players, and cellphones at airports

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krw writes:

"Tried" to? Are you being thick intentionally?


No.


You succeeded marvelously anyway.

The desire was to protect the symbol as a logo with copyright, but it
soon became clear that type designers planed to use it as a typeface glyph
instead, and that pretty much shot holes in the copyright plans.


My point is proven.

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Keith
 




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