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Re: Get a Sony WEB TV for ONLY $204.95 + Much More!



> Ok, I can prove it to you.  Let's take a little look at the definition of
> a fax machine found in 47 USC (which is the segment containing the junk
> fax law).
>
> 47 USC Sec. 227
> (a)(2) The term "telephone facsimile machine" means equipment which has
> the capacity (A) to transcribe text or images, or both, from paper into an
> electronic signal and to transmit that signal over a regular telephone
> line, or (B) to transcribe text or images (or both) from an electronic
> signal received over a regular telephone line onto paper.
>
> Seems to me that this is pretty self explanatory.  A computer meets the
> legal definition of "telephone facsimile machine".  Therefore UCE is
> illegal.

I guess it is illegal when the computer in question has a modem ("over regular
telephone line"), and a scanner ("from paper into an electronic signal"), or a
printer ("onto paper"). =8-)


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