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From: tdarcos@access3.digex.net (Paul Robinson)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: DOOM II CONTAINS VIRUS
Date: 6 Sep 1994 05:50:05 GMT
Organization: Tansin A. Darcos & Company, Silver Spring, MD USA
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Message-ID: <34gvud$o3h@news1.digex.net>
References: <34fupk$qe4@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
NNTP-Posting-Host: access3.digex.net
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Sam Harrison (otaku@sugar.NeoSoft.COM) wrote:
: ATTENTION!!!! It seems that the people at ID have intentionally "leaked"
: Doom II in an attempt to teach pirates a lesson. Some people on IRC
: have claimed that after beating the copy of DOOM II that is illegaly
: floating around, a digitized screen of John Romero and some of the
: other Doom authors frowning and pointing at the camera comes up on the
: screen, followed by a message that states "You pirates have screwed us
: over ever since we released Wolfenstein.. Now its our turn to do the
: screwing." - AND THEN IT WIPES YOUR HARD DRIVE CLEAN, AND RESETS YOUR
: CMOS!
Irregardless of how nice that sounds as a way to get back at someone,
such an act almost certainly violates state and federal laws against
"intentional destruction of a computer system." Without regard to
whether the person is stealing a program, the fact remains that they
could be an innocent third party, who has now been damaged by this
action. Further, if they have the file stored on a floppy disk, they
now have the evidence to invoke civil and criminal proceedings which are
independent from any alleged copyright infringement.
And if the person is someone who got the program by buying it from a
computer store, or where someone snuck it onto disks in a store and thus
caused a whole bunch of people to suffer damages? There would be a good
case for severe liability here.
There are other issues involved here including the doctrine of "unclean
hands" which is a little long to discuss now.
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