Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!janus.berkeley.edu!mitchell From: mitchell@janus.berkeley.edu (Evan Mitchell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Software theives Message-ID: <30706@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 17 Aug 89 18:21:34 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: mitchell@janus.berkeley.edu (Evan Mitchell) Distribution: usa Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 22 Dealers at Winner's Circle, here in Berkeley, have made a few commments of software theives and vandels raiding their store. These people actually try to copy commercial software in the store. Some even steal the actual disks!! Some individuals try to infect the machines with viruses. Some individuals steal or otherwise screw up the PD disks. (This especially pisses me off, because Winner's Circle usually allows peple to make copies of Fish Disks free of charge) From what I understand, usually the offenders are minors. Winner's Circle is a small shop, crammed full of Amiga, Mac, ST, and IBM hardware and software. They're usually quite busy, and therefore they cannot watch everybody all of the time. As a result of these theives and vandels, many services that should occur (i.e try out a game in the store before you buy it, easily get the latetest PD stuff) cannot. Any other dealers have this problem? _______________________________________________________________________________ | Evan Jay Mitchell EECS/ERL Industrial Liaison Program | | mitchell@janus.berkeley.edu University of California at Berkeley | | Phone: (415) 643-6687 | | "Think, it ain't illegal...yet!" - George Clinton | |_____________________________________________________________________________|