[47269] in Cypherpunks
Re: Novell & Microsoft Settle Largest BBS Piracy Case Ever
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lasser)
Mon Jan 15 22:55:37 1996
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 22:32:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lasser <jlasser@rwd.goucher.edu>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: Gary Edstrom <gbe@primenet.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199601152123.QAA28777@jekyll.piermont.com>
On Mon, 15 Jan 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Gary Edstrom writes:
> > I saw this in a news summary today and thought that it might be of
> > interest to the list. Sorry, but this is all of the article that I
> > have.
>
> Repeat after me:
>
> This is not software piracy punks. This is CYPHERpunks. We talk about
> cryptography and its implications on society. Software piracy isn't a
> topic around here.
Except, of course, if truly anonymous transactions were easily available
now, the people wouldn't have gotten caught AND could have made a bundle
in the process...
End of goverments = decline (but not end) of software markets?
Jon Lasser
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