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From: mreed@leah.Albany.Edu ( Mike Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Software Piracy (names, addresses, numbers and pictures)
Message-ID: <451@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: Fri, 24-Jul-87 13:54:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: leah.451
Posted: Fri Jul 24 13:54:55 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 14:47:11 EDT
References: <240@uscacsc.UUCP> <6375@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Organization: The University at Albany, Computer Services Center
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Summary: nasty comments about pirates.. and what any red-blooded hacker would do to their families


  I've seen lot's of discussion about how people should just let these
slime run their pirate boards, because the pirate boards are probably
not doing too much damage to sales.

  I saw one of my applications on that board's filelist. An application
that just came out, which has good utility, and is easy to use. It
was designed so that one could use it without constantly looking at the
manual. 

  So now I see my program pirated by some slime, AND the user community
just says, "well, its not damaging OUR sales".

  I know now what my next program is going to be. It's going to 
unprotect, and subsequently delete, every file on every storage device
attached to the machine it's run on. THEN i'll name it something cute,
like "DPAINT III beta", and upload it to one of those &@_^^#%* boards.

	Hack
	 +
      Destroy