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From: lyle@sjuvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Software Protection
Message-ID: <1141@sjuvax.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 88 20:06:32 GMT
Reply-To: lyle@sjuvax.UUCP (Wayne J. Lyle)
Organization: St. Joseph's University, Phila. PA.
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Keywords: legal


	I am writing this message to get an idea of how other
schools handle the following situation.

    A few days ago I was working in one of the campus Personal
Computing Labs when I noticed a student making a stack of disk
copies. (I am not really that nosy, but the situation was 
occurring right next to me.)  I took a glance over to see what
this person was copying, and noticed that all the disks were 
labeled similar to those of WordPerfect (System disk, Speller, etc,.).
I thought it best to make a comment to the person that the copying
of software is a Federal Offense.  The person replied that she was
only making a copy from the copy that a friend had given to the person.
I repeated to this person that it is illegal.

   The only thing I could make the person do is stop copying the 
disk.  Now my questions:

   Has anyone else ever encountered this situation?  Is so, what
kind of measures were taken to correct the situation?  In this
case it was outside software, but what if they are copying the
universities software?  What do you do with teachers who promote
the software pirateing.

   Thanks to all in advance.

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Wayne J. Lyle  				    St. Joseph's University
Academic Computing                          Philadelphia, Pa 19131
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