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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Pirates and Houston Amiga BBSes
Keywords: SPA Toll Free Number
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Date: 8 Mar 90 07:23:48 GMT
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In article <490f8c82.db93@edsel.engin.umich.edu> chrisl@caen.engin.umich.edu (Chris Lang) writes:
>In article <10037@cbmvax.commodore.com> lauren@cbmvax (Lauren Brown - CATS) writes:
>>The toll free number for reporting piracy is (800) 388-PIR8.

>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?

They just need the telephone number of the pirate BBS. If you want to remain
anonymous, they'll accept that too.  The have shut down quite a few BBS
(and people DID get in jail) and have pretty good connections with the FBI.

-- Marco
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