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From: larry@st-andy.uucp (Larry Martell)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Turning someone in for software piracy
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.123958.14100@st-andy.uucp>
Date: 5 Jun 91 12:39:58 GMT
References: <9776X31w164w@spies.com> <1991Jun05.060505.115653@locus.com>
Reply-To: uunet!st-andy!larry (Larry Martell)
Organization: RMJ Securities Corp.
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In article <1991Jun05.060505.115653@locus.com> cjkuo@locus.com (Chengi Jimmy Kuo) writes:
>bbs.attkcat@spies.com (the attack cat) writes:
>
>>A friend of mine wants to 'turn in' her employer for software piracy.
>
>>Some of the copied programs are WordPerfect, Pagemaker, and Harvard
>>Graphics.
>
>>This is a small division of a fortune-100 company (which has a published
>>non-piracy policy that this division is breaking).  There's probably
>>half-a-dozen computers involved.
>
>>Is it worth it ?  How do she do it ?
 [ stuff deleted ]
>As for the original post, all she can do is contact the companies involved.
>There's no such thing as copyright police.

Ah, but there is. They're called the Software Publishers Association (SPA).
They investigate accusations of this type.

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