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From: KSPROUL@RUTGERS.ARPA
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Subject: re: software piracy..
Message-ID: <12073@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 7-Apr-84 22:25:41 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr  7 22:25:41 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Apr-84 06:02:25 EST
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One thing that I dont understand is that magazines such as BYTE ALLOW
want ads in there magazine (which are FREE, so BYTE has the right to
censor them) that say...

'Want to trade software for xxx computer, you send me your list, I will
send you mine....'

I feel that ads like this are 99% of the time, people wanting to trade
comercial programs NOT programs that are public domain or that they
themselves wrote..   BYTE and other magazines SHOULD censor these ads
and thus discourage software piracy by way of US Mail, which could probably
be a Federal Offence, instead of just a case of 'stealing' something worth
$50.

Keith Sproul
Ksproul@Rutgers.arpa
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