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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Caught in the act of piracy
Message-ID: <1990Feb28.140028.11440@virtech.uucp>
Date: 28 Feb 90 14:00:28 GMT
References: <1378@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk> <1990Feb28.003201.10614@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <1990Feb28.003201.10614@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> doug%mathel@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Doug James) writes:
  [discussion of someone whom got a letter from a company that said something
   like "we think you are pirating our software" deleted]
>My question: what mechanism is likely to have triggered such a letter?


Most likely your friend posted something on the net saying "I have this problem
when I try to do such-and-such with this program".  The company saw it,
checked thier registered user's list and found the name missing. 

Note that net may be usenet, bitnet, compuserv, etc.

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