Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!ames!pacbell!sactoh0!mfolivo
From: mfolivo@sactoh0.UUCP (Mark F. Newton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Club pirating orgies
Summary: Prosecuted?
	 I *doubt* it.
Message-ID: <2585@sactoh0.UUCP>
Date: 19 Feb 90 09:05:58 GMT
References: <9002121946.AA23004@decwrl.dec.com> <2554@sactoh0.UUCP> <361@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
Organization: Sacramento Public Access, Ca. USA
Lines: 36

In article <361@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>, weaver@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (weaver) writes:
> 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

I very much *doubt* that. And by whom? "Oh Mr. DA, I run a BBS full
of illegally copied software, and this guy planted a worm and
formatted my drive..."

Yeah, right. Actually, I would rather get some friends of mine, the
torpedo twins, Guido and Tony, to format their system.

That would probably be more effective, as pirates have backups of
software, but not many pirates have backups of their faces...

Yeah, I'd like to see some dweeb bithead who doesn't have a life
file a complaint against someone who "persuades" them not to post
copyright software.


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