The act refers to facsimile machines. The act defines fascimile machines
as a device for transmitting or receiving data trasmissions over a
telephone line and rendering them to paper.
The logic then follows that hey, a computer can be used to receive a
fax and print it, therefore it is a facsimile machine.
To date the courts have not seen fit to agree with this logic, and don't
define computers as facsimile machines.
Frankly I agree with the courts and think it is very, very weak logic.
I've been backwards and forwards over this one as until recently I was a
USEnet moderator and this was a BIG discussion on the moderators mailing
list. We even had lawyers participating. The end decision was basically,
you could *try* to use this, but odds are your case will either be thrown
out or their defense would shred you into itty bitty pieces - and in any
case it would cost a lot.
-MZ
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