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From: rokicki@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Tomas Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Virus spread due to piracy?  Huh?
Message-ID: <923@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 3 Jan 88 03:36:38 GMT
Organization: Stanford University Computer Science Department
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I'm not sure I understand the connection between the virus and piracy.
The virus spreads through disks that are duplicated and distributed.
Is the claim being made that most disks that are duplicated and
distributed are pirated software?  One of the things I have always loved
about the Amiga is the large and ever-expanding base of public domain
software and demos.  In the two years I've hacked Amigas, I have
received at least 200 disks of public domain software, hacks from friends,
why-doesn't-this-work questions, data files, etc.  Not a single disk has
been pirated software.  I has always been my observation that software
piracy on the Amiga has always been at pretty low levels, especially when
compared with the IBM and Mac worlds.  I would hate for a reputation of
piracy on the Amiga to start spreading, so let's be more careful with
what we say, eh, boys?

-tom