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From: ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Ray Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Caught in the act of piracy
Message-ID: <1088@philmtl.philips.ca>
Date: 28 Feb 90 18:16:29 GMT
References: <1990Feb28.003201.10614@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Organization: Philips Electronics Ltd.  Product Group PC.  Montreal.
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In referenced article, doug%mathel@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Doug James) writes:
 >Someone I know has a pirated copy of an expensive piece of commercial
 >software.  Today this person received a letter from the company
 >producing the software.
 >....
 >My question: what mechanism is likely to have triggered such a letter?

Auto-reporting mechanisms have been around on shrink-wrap software for some
time now.  Their availability was really the only reason that the software
industry was willing to stop copy protecting their software.

This is a good reason to avoid running pirated software on machines with
internal modems, or even too close to a touch-tone phone....
-- 
Ray Dunn.                    | UUCP: ray@philmtl.philips.ca
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