Re: [SAGE] [Fwd: [IRR] Create an e-annoyance, go to jail]

["Bryce T. Pier" <btpier@menolly.net>]

On Mon, January 9, 2006 1:17 pm, Mark R. Lindsey said:
> <believes-in-the-system>
> This whole thread/rumor is based on silly generalizations of the
> telecom and rules that apply it to Internet-based telephony. VoIP is
> legally considered, for certain purposes, telephony. That doesn't
> mean that *everything* IP is no governed by laws and rules that apply
> to telephones.

I hope you're right but I think email would fall within "other types of
communications".

`(C) in the case of subparagraph (C) of subsection (a)(1), includes any
device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or
other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part,
by the Internet (as such term is defined in section 1104 of the Internet
Tax Freedom Act (47 U.S.C. 151 note)).'.

I'd be more inclined to believe you're correct if it stated something to
the effect of "other types of verbal communications". I think that lack of
distinction is important.

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Bryce T. Pier
btpier@menolly.net