Re: Piracy reply

[brian.hammack@rook.wa.com (Brian Hammack)]

 Dr. Tom replied to my public question:

 OC(| Brian Hammack asked the question:
>>"So why did Dr. Tom "declare war" on BD & SSII and why >>did he decide
    | to share the LemminGS & C3200 code??"

Glad to see a response; no one else answered.  :)  And thus no one has
stated why war was declared and the code posted.

 OC(| Dr. Tom didn't declare war on BD and SSII.  Nor, did I decide to
    | share LemmingGS and 3200 code.  Seeing as I had neither, I
    | couldn't share them, even if I wanted to.

[benefit of doubt mode]  Yes, if you don't have something, it's kind of
hard to share it.  And if indeed you weren't around a computer, it is
hard to post such email to BD & SSII and such files to warez sites.

 OC(| Like others have shown, in another thread/reply to this original
    | article - (which rather shocked and agitated me somewhat also) my
    | old (now expired) wco.com email address can be forged and used to

Saw that message.  The author didn't say whom s/he was in it...  :)

    | else to use my acct. for such upload.  Yet, it did occur from my
    | old and now expired wco.com acct.  [and I didn't authorize it]

Which brings about the question, how did one get the program code then?
I should be neutral on this one, all, because I don't have enough info
to say who did what, but... If someone, anyone, posted the program code
or copyrighted software to a warez site, no matter who it was, it's
wrong.  For Tom's sake I hope he was two hundred miles away from his
computer and didn't have the files in question in his possession indeed.
What I have heard (without being able to prove anything) keeps Tom from
being IMHO totally at fault for the uploads, no matter what else he did.

Reminds me of a friend:  he ran a BBS in one city and worked at a
college in another.  A friend of his ran a BBS at a different college.
Somebody uploaded some porno to the second college's BBS, and the guy's
supervisor went poring through all sorts of papers to find out where it
could have come from, eventually blaming my friend and the college he
worked at (which DOES NOT HAVE a BBS) due to finding my friend's home
phone number (not BBS number!) written somewhere.  The supervisor tried
to make a legal case, implicating my friend and my alma mater, and could
not make it stick because 1-my friend's BBS never had those files, and
2-the first college didn't have a BBS thus had nothing to do with this.
It got nasty for my friend's friend, who got caught in the middle.  It
almost got nasty for my college in the public eye and for my friend
(since his supervisor has no clue about what goes on in the computer
department, and took the accusations seriously despite him pointing out
that the college never had a BBS in the first place).  My point being:
Obviously something happened and somebody's taking the blame, but this
is not to say that the person taking the blame was the perpetrator -- no
matter what his record is (or is construed as).

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