Hi Aaron,
15-Jul-97 15:50, Aaron Gelner wrote to All Who Cares
          Subject: Pir8s in my area
 AG> Hello everyone...
 AG>    Well, I just got this echo =).  Okay.  If someone was pirating stuff 
 AG> and 
 AG> you knew about it, would you:
 AG>    
 AG>    [A].  Turn the person in, and take the chance of all these "warez" 
 AG> bbsers   
 AG>          hating you?
ABSOLUTELY!  Who cares if he winds up hating you.  If he's dumb enough to
be distributing "warez" then burn him.  You must be carefull how you do
this.  You don't want the police to drop in and not find anything.  If you
can capture a file list and turn it in, your chances of success get much 
higher.
 AG> he make a false acuzation and when they search my household, etc, and
 AG> find nothing, etc, could they still hit me and say "Yeah, you do
 AG> pirate because you have a cd-r writer"???
If that happens, consult a lawyer right away.  I suspect that there's not
much the police can do without proof, but I'm not 100% sure about this. (In
a case such as this, it helps to have a lawyer friend)  :)
 AG>"They cannot do a thing to me, NOW, because I removed em all off my 
ard"
 AG>    Well, just cause he has em on HIS HD still, he could still be turned 
 AG> in .. :)
This is harder to prove.  As I said above, be carefull how you go about it.
 AG>        Please, any help, info on who to contact, etc would be muchly 
 AG> appreciated, because I have like 10 people (sysops) who have "warez" 
that 
 AG> they do trading with.
I have two suggestions.  Either call your local police and report it through
there, or call the SPA and tell them.  I unfortunately don't remember the
phone number for the SPA, but it shouldn't be hard to find.  (You might even
find it farther back in this echo).
Good Luck!
TTYL
Bruce
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