Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ptsfa!ames!think!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!seismo!uunet!munnari!mb From: mb@munnari.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: A different kind of pirated software Message-ID: <1741@munnari.oz> Date: Tue, 7-Jul-87 01:13:14 EDT Article-I.D.: munnari.1741 Posted: Tue Jul 7 01:13:14 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Jul-87 06:40:46 EDT Reply-To: mb@munnari.oz.au (Michael Bednarek) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga Distribution: world Organization: I.A.E.S.R., Melbourne University Lines: 29 Keywords: piracy I and my family enjoy a number of David Addison's games, so I was rather shocked by this, found in comp.sys.atari.st: :From: omsi@reed.UUCP (OMSI) :Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st :Subject: Parker Brothers VS David Addison... :Date: 1 Jul 87 05:48:45 GMT :Date-Received: 5 Jul 87 08:37:52 GMT :Organization: Reed College, Portland OR : :Mega bummer dudes... : :I just got some bad news from Dave Addison about two of his programs, :Monopoly and Millebourne. It seems that Parker Brothers didn't like a :game done so close to the look and rules of their game(s). They said it :was a copyright infringment. So rather than argue, Dave agreed to spread :the (bad) news that all copies of his Monopoly and Millebourne are to be :erased. They now fall under the catagory of pirated software. : :[Don't reply to me, I'm just passing the news on.] [So do I] :Russell Schwartz Michael Bednarek (mb@munnari.oz.au | ...seismo.CSS.GOV!munnari!mb) u3369429@{murdu.oz.au | ucsvc.dn.mu.oz.au} ...seismo.CSS.GOV!munnari!{murdu.oz | ucsvc.dn.mu.oz}!u3369429 "POST NO BILLS."