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From: j_manning@csc32.enet.dec.com (John Manning)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Call these BBS
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Date: 5 Jun 90 02:28:19 GMT
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In article <23435@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>, jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu (John 'Vlad' Adams) writes...
>In article <1249@nyx.UUCP> kvasconc@nyx.UUCP (Kevin Wade Vasconcellos) writes:
>>
>> Okay..call the following BBS's located in Denver, CO for Amigas!
>>
>>   Gives those a call.....pirate on all of them except Backburner!
> 
> 
>So in other words they'll be closed in a week by the secret service.  Or
                                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>perhaps the secret service is running them to get names and numbers of
>crackers/phreaks/pirates.
>--
>John  M.  Adams    --**--    Professional Student on the six-year plan!     ///
>Internet:   jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu   -or-   vladimir@maple.circa.ufl.edu    ///
>"Houston, we have a negative on that orbit trajectory." Calvin & Hobbes \\V//
>Cosysop of BBS:42; Amiga BBS FIDOnet 1:3612/42.  904-438-4803 (Florida)  \X/

I don't know why so many people think the "secret service" or FBI are the least
bit interested in pirate boards.  They don't give a flip about pirate boards.
You have never read about a purely pirate board getting shut down by any legal
agency.  The only boards that get in trouble are the ones that post credit card/
calling card numbers or other types of illegal information such as how to break
into government systems and what not.  Piracy is not considered enough of a 
crime in and of itself to interest federal agencies.  You may occasionally hear
of Lotus/Microsoft/Ashton Tate or some other large software house threatening
to sue the sysop of a pirate board but that is all.


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