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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: PC ROM copying
Message-ID: <6037@alice.uUCp>
Date: Tue, 9-Sep-86 10:19:20 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  9 10:19:20 1986
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> BTW - Copying the ROMs is illegal, and I have heard of IBM dealers refusing
> to repair units that have copied ROMs in them.  If you dupe the ROMs and
> have a problem that requires an authorized dealer, you may be out of luck.

The people that have that happen to them are lucky.
I heard a story about a repair agency for a particular brand of
microphone made overseas.  When someone came in with a broken
microphone for repair, they would check the serial number against
the list of serial numbers of microphones they knew to be legally
imported.  If it didn't match the list, the customer would never
get it back.  Moreover, they would deny that the customer ever
brought it in for repair in the first place, or that any such microphone
ever existed.

I was outraged at the time, but now I'm not so sure.