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- From: smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows)
- Subject: Re: Acorn news release: Advance
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.154259.1462@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Organization: Nottingham University
- References: <1993Jan22.120539.19118@cs.nott.ac.uk> <1993Jan22.131726.21494@cs.nott.ac.uk> <1993Jan22.151636.24153@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 15:42:59 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.151636.24153@cs.nott.ac.uk> rsxdp@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (D.Pead) writes:
- >Basically, has anybody ever heard of a software house going under because of
- >illegal copying? I suspect that the likes of FAST count all the ripped-off
- >programs in existance, multiply by the price of the package and then get
- >indignant at the figure.
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- I'm rather more concerned by the current/forthcoming campaign by various
- organisations such as FAST and ELSPA [sp?] to close down as many bulletin
- boards and information systems as possible. They claim that these provide
- a major forum for software piracy and that legislation should be introduced
- forcing the people who run such systems to pay very hefty registration fees.
- I am sure that someone will post the full details of their proposals, but
- they strike me as being quite worrying.
-
- Simon
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