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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: About Software Piracy! (software that bites back)
Message-ID: <8037@g.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 13 Jan 88 04:21:43 GMT
References: <2308@crash.cts.com> <4362@garfield.UUCP> <300@uwslh.UUCP>
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In article <300@uwslh.UUCP> lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Christopher Lishka) writes:
>	It seems to me that this has already been done before, with
>disasterous results.  A few years back some programmer (at a LARGE
>software house) got a little disgruntled with pirates and put some
>code into the program to see if the version had been copied.  If the
>program determined that it was pirated, then it would trash your disk.

I don't remember the exact software involved, but Microsoft had something
like this happen a couple of years back.  Quite a few people got trashed
disks.

Sean
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