Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watdragon!rose!kgschlueter
From: kgschlueter@rose.waterloo.edu (Kevin Schlueter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Viruses and Stolen Software
Message-ID: <4494@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 6 Jan 88 05:03:19 GMT
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Reply-To: kgschlueter@rose.waterloo.edu (Kevin Schlueter)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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I'm president of the UW Amiga Users Group, and have a lot of contact
with people using Amigas for the first time.  Many of these people did NOT
purchase a second disk drive (being students, they couldn't afford it).
Because they hate disk swapping, they often set up PD disks so that they 
contain a few of the more common commands and are bootable -- hence they
get in the HABIT of booting PD disks.  Now, if these people were to 
receive an infected PD disk somehow, they would no doubt spread the virus
to most of their Amiga owning friends within a few days -- without any
piracy ever having taken place.

I understand the frustration (and loss of profits) that piracy causes
software developers, but please remember that people are presumed  
innocent until proven guilty.

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Kevin Schlueter (president of UW Amiga Users Group)