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From: weaver@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (weaver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Club pirating orgies
Message-ID: <361@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
Date: 15 Feb 90 18:38:51 GMT
References: <9002121946.AA23004@decwrl.dec.com> <2554@sactoh0.UUCP>
Reply-To: weaver@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (andrew k weaver)
Organization: U of Akron Computer Center, Ohio
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In article <2554@sactoh0.UUCP> mfolivo@sactoh0.UUCP (Mark F. Newton) writes:
>
>Heck, if you really want to make a difference, don't just write a
>letter,or make an announcement saying you're clean, the pirate
>boards just laugh in your face anyway, what do they care?
>
>Heck, just infiltrate the bloody organization, and format their
>hard disk, or palm an indistrial magnet, and run them over the
>disks... Plant worms, viruses, program new viruses to screw up their
>systems. Do something, rather than point and hope someone does
>something.

This is a good way to get yourself prosecuted. A better way would be to get
the names of the people doing the pirating, the software packages
they are copying, and turn them into the manufacturers.  The FBI
might not do anything, but you can bet some of the manufacturers of
the software do.  I remember something in my Fontz! manual where
the author encouraged legit users to turn in illegit users of NeoCept's
software to him personally.  He stopped short of promising physical 
retribution, but gave the feeling that he would see to it personally
that something would be done.

Most developers of ST software (save for WP Corp. and some others) are
not multi-million dollar enterprises, they are people like Dave
Beckenmeyer, Dave Small and Derek Mihocha (sp?) who would like to
derive a livelyhood from their work.  You can bet your a*s they are
interested in seeing pirating stopped.