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From: spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Info on Lotus Marketplace
Message-ID: <SPIKE.90Dec2203641@world.std.com>
Date: 3 Dec 90 02:36:41 GMT
References: <WEX.90Nov30110654@dali.pws.bull.com>
	<TOM.90Nov30205918@hcx2.ssd.csd.harris.com>
Sender: spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua)
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In-Reply-To: tom@ssd.csd.harris.com's message of 1 Dec 90 01:59:18 GMT

In article <TOM.90Nov30205918@hcx2.ssd.csd.harris.com> tom@ssd.csd.harris.com (Tom Horsley) writes:
<Ah, with as many hackers as there are out there who passionately hate Lotus,
<I forsee a big underground research program to break the protection scheme
<and scatter around millions of copies of programs to "fill your meter"
<without the formality of a phone call to Lotus and an exchange of cash...
<Get enough people using pirate meter fillers and Lotus won't make any money
<on the product. Possibly the best way to kill it off :-).

	You can bet that Lotus will put plenty of entries in the
database which ultimately get back to them.  This is a common practice
when you own a mailing list to keep track of who is using it.  There
is a term for it which slips my mind.

	Just another form of copy protection...

->Spike
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