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Article #1047Re: SPA piracy raid at Oregon?
From: Ken Razeghi
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 04:52
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 04:52
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In article <1992Jul13.190130.23370@pica.army.mil> SteveWall@aol.com (Steve Wall) writes: > Here at last is probably the basis of the SPA's success. Most institutions > subjected to an SPA raid would gladly pay the 'fines' informally imposed > by SPA than risk a civil suit. If I understand SPA's method's, basically, > they obtain a search warrant, find all your undocumented/pirated software, > and then say "Pay us X dollars, or we'll sue". What exactly is the definition of BLACKMAIL? Isn't it when you know of a crime, and you offer to keep your mouth shut in return for MONEY? Sounds to me like the SPA is on VERY thin ice here... --ken
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!news From: kraze@uic.edu (Ken Razeghi) Subject: Re: SPA piracy raid at Oregon? Message-ID: <1992Aug6.045221.25542@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University Date: Thu, 6 Aug 92 04:52:21 GMT Lines: 14