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From: chrisl@caen.engin.umich.edu (Chris Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Pirates and Houston Amiga BBSes
Keywords: SPA Toll Free Number
Message-ID: <490f8c82.db93@edsel.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 8 Mar 90 00:49:00 GMT
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Reply-To: chrisl@caen.engin.umich.edu (Chris Lang)
Organization: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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In article <10037@cbmvax.commodore.com> lauren@cbmvax (Lauren Brown - CATS) writes:
>In article <23311@usc.edu> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>>You can call the Software Publisher Association toll free number, and they
>>will tell you what you can do.  Ask ATT for the 800 number for the SPA.
>
>The toll free number for reporting piracy is (800) 388-PIR8.
>
>Let us know the results.

What kind of information is SPA interested in?  I presume they aren't asking
for reports like "Joe Blow just gave my brother a copy of FuzzPro+ version 3,"
correct?  Are they mostly interested in reports of pirate BBSes, or what?  And,
how "hard" do they want the information to be?

Also, who else wants to know these things?  I know our local FBI office
occasionally states that they investigate cases of piracy, as does the
security division of our phone company, if it involves BBSes...what about AT&T?
I'm really getting tired of these people...especially after getting accosted on
BIX the other day by some moron who implied I couldn't be a /<00L Amiga power-
user because I preferred to write or buy software rather than steal it like his
awesome friends do.  :-)

 -Chris
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