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From: davidg@janus.uucp (David Gaertner)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MEAN18 - is pirated!
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Date: 2 Mar 88 18:09:19 GMT
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Keywords: MEAN18

In article <878@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> (Chris Peck) writes:
>Geez - I just checked out MEAN18 (parts 1-5) and it is  a PIRATED
>copy of the game by Accolade - just great, eh?  I don't know about
>you folks but I just removed them from our system.  The big question is
>what do we do about this in the future?????

A MODERATOR would prevent illegal acts such as the posting of
copyrighted software!  Granted that the garbage factor is low in
comp.binaries.ibm.pc, there still should be a moderator to prevent
postings of things like VIRUSES and PIRATED programs.

Also, it should be made clear to people that they should at least skim
the licensing agreements that comes with the software they buy.  Might
prevent a lawsuit or a criminal action, such as distributing the
software.

And I feel that people who downloaded the program should pay the
publishers some amount of compensation (not necessarily the retail
price that nobody pays anyway), but something.

I wonder how badly that idiot who posted the game is going to be flamed
by Accolade's lawyers?

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