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From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: shrink-wrap copying...
Summary: Please DO mention names!
Message-ID: <17@dcs.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 88 13:19:20 GMT
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In article <2281@charon.unm.edu> hansb@ariel.unm.edu.UUCP (Hans Bechtel) writes:
>
>I know of a store in a big city in New Mexico that after they buy the
>software to sell, they open up the package, copy it, and pass it to
>a few of their friends, shrink-wrap it again, and put it back on the
>shelves for sale.
>
>I won't mention any names here, but I think it is wrong to do the above.

Please DO mention names! This sort of thing could cause incredible hassles
for the eventual purchaser of such a re-shrinkwrapped package.

Consider this scenario:

A software company finally gets fed up with piracy and decides to go after
pirates. They try to collect as many illegal copies of their software as they
can, offering "amnesty" to those who had them, and sue the registered owners
for each serial number they find in their collection.

The customers of the store you are referring to have no idea that there are
illegitimate copies of software with their serial numbers floating around out
there, and suddenly they have a lawsuit sprung on them!

Don't say that won't happen, I have heard of two instances when it has!

So DO mention names, so people will know where NOT to buy software.
-- 
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