-> þ Joe Boswell wrote to All on 08 Apr 97  12:38:29
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-> Hali Joe Boswell !
->
-> JB> Ok PUNISHMENT, for pirates, does anyone know I MEAN KNOW exactly
-> JB> what is done to a person found pirateing this or that, Im not
-> talking JB> some little 14 year old idiot I mean like 0-7 day or
-> 0-12 Hour FTP with
->  JB> say 3 to 5 gigs on it of Illegal software, what would happen to
-> JB> person?
-> In which country ?  In mine, the biggest penalty so far was about $22
-> was charged to two BBS's having some pirate files.  Apart of that, if
-> catch some companyes pirating, the worst is if they make them pay for
-> the stuff they pirated.
The US, they usually get pretty evil with the BBSs, charging them thius
much for every instance, heh you know how that goes with 3 to 5 gigs of
pirated software, somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 to 2 hundred counts
of whatever...
joe.
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