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To: Scumbria who wrote (47329)	1/25/1999 10:16:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (2) of 1571413

Scumbria, Pirate software. In hong kong they sell compendiums of about 50 kinds. Games, CAD, PC circuit layout, etc you can find one or more of these bootleg CDs for most software themes. Most dongle software is also available cracked. About 95% of all software in ASIA is pirate. here in Canada and the USA they cannot get away with pirate pressed CDs(there were some), but we have distributed piracy courtesy of the CD rom writers that are $250 each now and blanks are $1. New cable and adsl systems allow large files fast mobility. I know of one fellow in Rochester NY who has 100 compilations, all on writable CDs. He sells them at fleamarkets for$10-15 and each has $5000 or more software on it at retail. This has become an enormous problem all over the world and the writers will jump at the Intel scheme. From what I see it can be done by others as well as all that is needed is some flash area. It amounts to embedding a dongle in the CPU, a parallel method can be found. If only Intel has it I think it will not get full acceptance as too many people will be left outside. In addition any monopoly aspect that might occur will certainly get stomped on. Bill Here in Canada

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