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NOVELL SHUTS DOWN TWO ILLICIT BULLETIN BOARDS SELLING PIRATED
SOFTWARE
Stems Sales to Users of Fraudulent Licenses
PROVO, Utah -- September 4, 1991 -- Novell, Inc., developer of
NetWare systems software products, today announced it has filed
copyright and trademark infringement lawsuits and executed
separate seizure orders against two California-based companies
running illicit bulletin board systems selling pirated software.
The lawsuits were filed in Federal District Court in Los Angeles
and San Francisco against D&D Computing, Inc., and Doug Luce who
ran "The Wish List" bulletin board based in Redondo Beach, and
Custom Software Services, Inc., and Steven Marenkov who ran "The
Red October" bulletin board based in Walnut Creek. Computer
software, hardware, backup tapes and business records were seized
from The Wish List on July 31st and from the Red October board on
August 7th. Settlements are pending in both cases.
The defendants in both cases sold and distributed pirated Novell
NetWare operating system software as well as hundreds of other
software programs from large and small industry vendors. These
vendors include Artisoft, Autodesk, Borland International, Corel
Systems, Dynamic, IBM, Logitech, Lotus, Microsoft, Sierra Online,
Software Publishing Corporation and WordPerfect.
"We applaud Novell's actions in shutting down these two pirate
boards," said Ilene Rosenthal, Director of Litigation of the
Software Publishing Association. " The industry has not done
enough in the past to fight software piracy that occurs through
electronic bulletin boards. Piracy schemes via bulletin boards
have an especially egregious effect on smaller software
companies," Rosenthal added. "Novell's actions represent the
first of many that the industry anticipates taking in the next
few months."
Bulletin boards are electronic databases accessed via modem from
computers. Both the Wish List and Red October bulletin boards
charged a fee for downloading pirated software programs and also
encouraged uploading of legitimately licensed software to the
bulletin board.
"Illicit bulletin boards prey upon unsuspecting users, luring
them into illegal activity," said David Bradford, Novell senior
vice president and general counsel. "Shutting down such
operations protects users from being involved in software piracy
and helps to ensure that software purchased by customers is
legitimate, uncorrupted, full-featured with necessary
documentation."
In addition to operating its own anti-piracy program, Novell is a
member of the Software Publishers Association's Copyright
Protection Fund, the Business Software Alliance and the Canadian
Alliance Against Software Theft. Novell works closely with these
organizations to combat intellectual property theft worldwide.
Novell licenses its NetWare operating system products on a per
server basis with one licensing fee paid for each NetWare
operating system.
Novell, Inc., (NASDAQ: NOVL) develops NetWare systems software
products that manage and control the sharing of data across a
variety of network computing environments, including computer
workgroups, departmental networks and business-wide information
systems.