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From: CHESS@YKTVMV.BITNET (David.M.Chess)
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Subject: RE: Viruses and Copyrights (Part 2)
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Date: 5 Mar 90 05:00:00 GMT
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Olivier Crepin-Leblond <ZDEE699@ELM.CC.KCL.AC.UK> writes:

> The Brain virus was written by Mohammed Farooq Alvi in Lahore
> (Pakistan) and was used initially to protect their own software from
> being pirated.

This is a myth, I think.  I can't think of any feature of the virus
that would help protect software from being pirated.  Viruses are
basically irrelevant to copy-protection.  DC