Re: Cnet Article on Abandonware

[Matt Jensen <no@spam.com>]

I don't think there's any debate as to whether they're out looking for
pirated software.  Of course they are.  The debate is over whether
they're really proactively searching for pirated copies of old stuff
like MultiPlan and Adventure they way they are doing so for WIndows 2000
and Office 2000, etc.

Eric Shepherd wrote:
> 
> It has been a very public thing the last few weeks (with reports on CNN and
> so forth): Microsoft has licensed software from another company that will
> actually scan networks looking for illegal copies of Microsoft's software,
> and they have been using it for some time now, hunting down places that have
> pirated Microsoft products, and have in fact been getting their lawyers
> after people when copies are found.
> 
> --
> Eric Shepherd
> Editor
> A2Central.com

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