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From: ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: PC ROM copying
Message-ID: <481@argus.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 13-Sep-86 21:26:14 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 13 21:26:14 1986
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In article <6037@alice.uUCp>, ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
> > 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.

What if the customer shows a receipt which indicates the item had
be accepted by them for repair?  I'd like to accuse the repair agency
of theft because the customer really has no idea whether or not the
microphone is a legal one when it is purchased.  I think a little
cooperation to track down the seller of a counterfeit item would
on the long run be more profitable.

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