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From: kek@mgweed.UUCP (Kit Kimes)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: Programs in Magazines now available in a disk!
Message-ID: <7963@mgweed.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 08:32:20 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 21 08:32:20 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 22-Mar-84 01:29:37 EST
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Organization: AT&T Consumer Products - Montgomery Illinois
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NOTE: Buyers (and sellers) beware!
 
A couple of months we got a similar offer from a company calling itself
U.S. Computype out of Bountiful, Utah.  They wanted to charge $90
a year or $12 a month for essentially the same thing.  I sent a check
for one month to see if it was for real.  You had to sign a statement
that you actually owned the issues you were going to get on disk (I 
assume this was an attempt to get around legal problems since it is
legal for someone else to do the typing as long a you own the magazine
according to Compute! magazine).
 
Anyway, a couple of weeks later, I got a letter with my check back
saying that they were having problems and would let me know as soon
as they could take orders.  I can only assume one of the magazines
brought some kind of suit against them.  I haven't heard from them
again as yet.
 
Moral: It may be possible to get away with this sort of thing on a
local level but if this person tries to go national (and even
international over netnews) he could be in for some legal problems.
 
					Kit Kimes
					AT&T Consumer Products
					Montgomery Works
					Aurora, Il. 60507
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