Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!peter
From: peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: About Software Piracy! (software that bites back)
Message-ID: <592@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jan 88 11:44:50 GMT
References: <2308@crash.cts.com> <4362@garfield.UUCP> <300@uwslh.UUCP> <8037@g.ms.uky.edu>
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In article <8037@g.ms.uky.edu>, sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
> In article <300@uwslh.UUCP> lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Christopher Lishka) writes:
> >[ Rumor: large software house put killer copy protect in ]

> 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.

Sounds like the Arf Arf bluff story. The only people bitten by this dog are
the ones who panicked and hit the power switch while writes were going on.
It was a complete bluff, "put in by a student programmer". Sure.
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