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Re: Software copying a felony?!

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From: Jyrki Kuoppala
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 10:21
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In article <26SEP199216294187@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov>, dc@stars (Dave Cottingham) writes:
>violation.  I would conclude that this kind of small scale copying
>cannot possibly be stopped without some kind of systematic ongoing
>search by the police -- the kind of thing we prefer to avoid.

Avoid?  How's that again?

Don't worry, when employers will start demanding mandatory monthly
home-searches and diaries of daily errands also outside working hours,
it will be a good incentive to comply.  Also, you can arrange for
civil forfeiture of all computer equipment and give ten percent of the
profits for anyone acting as an informer - that should up the loot.
Add to that federal agents soliciting for copied software (like child
pornography) and you'll catch many of the damn communist criminals.
But if that doesn't work, a mandatory government tap usable from a
remote location will be made mandatory to build into every piece of
computer equipment.

//Jyrki
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Subject: Re: Software copying a felony?!
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