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BSA Accuses OpenOffice Mirrors

Posted by michael on from the premature-exclamation dept.

sqrt529 writes "A German university was accused by the BSA of pirating MS Office, because they mirrored OpenOffice.org. The scripts from the BSA only check for "Office" in the filename and then automatically send out notices to the ftp admins. Did any of you get similar notices from the BSA?"

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  1. Re:At least vigilante retaliation isn't legal yet by Moloch666 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Are you saying newsgroups are not widely used, or are widely used for illegitimate purposes? -- an AC

    I actually thought about that while typing the previous message, decided it wasn't neccassry... oops.

    I'm implying that newsgroups aren't as widely used when compared to http and ftp as it was in the past. The ratio that is, not actual numbers. I do realize that newsgroups are still widely used though.

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