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- From: evans1@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (Dan Evans)
- Subject: Re: A Frank Discussion on Piracy (Flames, Anyone? :-P )
- Organization: AT&T
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:15:35 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.181535.22281@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>
- References: <18626@mindlink.bc.ca> <BzFoB7.L5y@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <BzFoB7.L5y@news.cso.uiuc.edu> dlanglan@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (super-dave) writes:
- >Richard_Robb@mindlink.bc.ca (Richard Robb) writes:
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- >>But: aren't you worried that the virii are usually spread by piratii?
- >
- >Richard,
- >
- >You raise a good point about being taken advantage of by software/hardware
- >companies. However, your second point is a popular myth that needs to be
- >refuted. Yes, the pirating underworld does (every so often) suffer from a
- >virus infected program, but the penalties in the pirate community are
- >severe for those distributing it.
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- When I first started dealing with the net I was amazed with the speed that
- news of an infected file gets around. And the quick response of the ftp
- administrators to delete the files. Special thanks to Keith, Timo, and all
- you guys too numerous to mention.
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