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From: jim@eda.com (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Software Development And Piracy (Spurred By FTL replies)
Message-ID: <402@eda.com>
Date: 18 Dec 88 21:05:23 GMT
References: <555@icus.islp.ny.us> <2363@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <1334@leah.Albany.Edu> <6268@fluke.COM> <5027@garfield.MUN.EDU>
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In article <5027@garfield.MUN.EDU> john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell) writes:
| In article <6268@fluke.COM> kurt@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt Guntheroth) writes:
| >I wonder why companies don't offer cash rewards for "information leading to
| >the arrest and conviction" of software pirates.  
[...]
| Yeah, the first person to take advantage of the offer will be the Byte Bandit
| or some other sleazoid who's copied everything ever written, who will turn in
| all the people he knows who have 1-2 pieces of pirated software (and he
| probably gave them to them!).

Can you say Ivan Boesky? I knew you could.

This is definately in the time honored American and British tradition
of State/Queen 's Evidence.




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