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9.2 Computer News: Software Piracy Case Settled

Microsoft and Novell have reached a settlement with the computer hacker who ran the Assassins' Guild BBS, which served as the headquarters for two groups that distributed illegal copies of commercial software. The BBS operator will pay $70,300 and forfeit $40,000 worth of computer equipment in the settlement. (Investor's Business Daily 15 Jan 96 A7) This was from Edupage, http://www.educom.edu/.

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Wm Randolph Franklin
Tue Mar 19 22:00:14 EST 1996