Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 17:24:17 -0500 (EST)
From:
"Declan B. McCullagh" <declan+@CMU.EDU>
To:
cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Banned French Book Online
Cc:
Sender:
owner-cypherpunks@toad.com
Precedence: bulk
As Tim May noted a few messages ago, the French government censored a
book
written by the physician to their late president, Francois
Mitterrand. An
enterprising fellow in eastern France scanned it into 189
pages of GIF files
and put it online.
Now the French police have arrested him, ostensibly on unrelated charges.
I'm putting the complete version of the banned book, _Le Grand
Secret_,
online -- you can find it on the following identical sites:
http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena/contrib/bitbucket2/le-grand-secret/secret/
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/declan/www/le-secret/complete/
http://robotweb.ri.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/declan/www/le-secret/complete/
http://mousa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~stephane/secret/
Since the combined size of the files is 9 MB, Seth Finkelstein and
I
stripped the images from 4 bpp to 1 bpp (greyscale to monochrome),
and
reduced the combined size to 2 MB. The stripped GIF files are on:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/declan/www/le-secret/reduced/
http://robotweb.ri.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/declan/www/le-secret/complete/
http://web.mit.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/declan/www/le-secret/complete/
http://joc.mit.edu/le-secret/reduced-gifs.tar
[tar file]
http://joc.mit.edu/le-secret/reduced-gifs.tar.gz
[compressed tar file]
Related stories and commentary are available at the following identical sites:
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~declan/
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/declan/www/le-secret/
http://www.well.com/~declan/le-secret/
http://robotweb.ri.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/declan/www/le-secret/
http://web.mit.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/declan/www/le-secret/
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