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From: scotty@l5comp.UUCP (Scott Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Software Piracy (names, addresses, numbers and pictures)
Message-ID: <311@l5comp.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 1-Aug-87 18:06:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: l5comp.311
Posted: Sat Aug  1 18:06:36 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 2-Aug-87 20:38:04 EDT
References: <240@uscacsc.UUCP> <10@nancy.UUCP>
Reply-To: scotty@l5comp.UUCP (Scott Turner)
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Organization: L5 Computing, Edmonds, WA
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Summary: Obviously you haven't looked at the picture.

In article <10@nancy.UUCP> conklin@msudoc.UUCP writes:
>But perhaps the lowest thing of all is the inclusion of a photograph.
>You have NO way of knowing that's legit.  It could be a picture of
>ANYONE, from anywhere. Not only might the pirate board have used someone
>else's picture, YOU could have used someone else's picture. Pirates
>aren't stupid! They're NOT going to have THEIR picture up there! You have
>utterly NO way of gaurenteeing that person's innocence, and you have
>posted his picture to tens of thousands of sites as a THIEF.
If you had taken the time to DL and uudecode the picture attached to that
posting you MIGHT have noticed that it isn't real.

It's a "composite" picture. Like the picture of "Big Brother" in the recent
movie release of 1984.

It's made up of bits and pieces from alot of people, but is not the picture of
any single person. The symbolism of this picture and that of "Big Brother" is
somewhat deep if you think about it. No single "pirate" broke all the software
on that board that was posted, a whole bunch of people tossed in a program or
two. Much like a bunch of people tossed in a ear or nose etc to the picture.

I laughed my head off when I saw that picture. I laughed even harder when I
saw your followup posting.

Come on guys, how about a little research before we flame on around here?

Your thoughts on posting the phone number and then suggesting everyone give
the pirate a call are correct. If the poster of that message can be found by
the pirate he could be taken to court over his actions. Would be silly to
run around trying to bag the pirate only to wind up on the wrong side of the
court room yourself.

Scott Turner
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