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From: okunewck@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (Phil OKunewick)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: AIDS disk (PC)
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Date: 20 Dec 89 18:33:56 GMT
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attcan!ram@uunet.UU.NET (Richard Meesters) writes:
>martin@EASBY.DURHAM.AC.UK (Martin Ward) writes:
>> I feel that I should point out that the effects of this disk are
>> entirely in accordance with the standard warrenty used by most
>> commercial software developers...
>
>...Warranty implies that the
>product was purchased and you are following the terms of the purchase
>agreement.  The trojan runs for a time and then demands that you pay
>for the product...
>  ...kidnaps your data and holds it for ransom.
>
>Illegal, or at least extremely Immoral (presumably the former).

    Illegal in the United States, which may be why they didn't try to
spread it here.

    According to the regulations of the U.S. Postal Service, if you
receive something through the mail which you have not ordered, then
you automatically own it.

    If this were not enforced, then many of these annoying organizations
that send us ads for junk products would instead be sending us the junk
products, along with a bill for their trash.

    Does the U.K. have a similar law?
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					---Phil
(erutangis. ruoy naht daer ot redrah si erutangis. yM)