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How the BSA fights against piracy...
Posted on 08/11/00 16:11 by Robin van Lieshout
BSA deploys imaginary pirate software detector vans The Business Software Alliance aka The Pirate Busters is growing so frustrated in its hopeless efforts to cut down on software piracy that it has decided propaganda and misinformation is the way forward. Visitors to Glasgow Central Station yesterday were surprised to be confronted by a Ford Transit van with a small radar and rusty Sky satellite dish mounted on top. What was this apparition? Why, the BSA's latest weapon in the war against software-stealing scum. A wise reader asked one of the "consultants" what exactly the dishes were able to do and was informed they could detect PCs running illegal software. When pushed a little further, she admitted the van was "just a dummy" but the BSA still had a fleet of the real things rushing around Scotland detecting and nabbing unsuspecting criminals. Expressing incredulity, things turned nasty and our loyal reader was threatened. He'd "better watch out" because the BSA with its new super software-finding equipment will "get him easily". He quickly ran off and slid into the shadows before he was photographed and his face wired to Interpol and the CIA. Can you believe this? This has to be one of the most insane things we've heard in years. The BSA needs to take a valium and lay down for a bit. |
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Crazy ............
Do you think BSA Have lost the plot, Some where along the way ?
Do you think BSA Have lost the plot, Some where along the way ?
They could detect illegal sofware by using the reverse of the Tempest system to monitor your computer monitor (not LCD's) and if they also recorded you in the act of pirating software then they could in theory use that as evidence.
on the other hand this could be complete bullshit
on the other hand this could be complete bullshit
from now on i will sell mega shields you can pull over your pc better over jour house... this will protect you against the BSA sattelite.....
Oh My Gawd.....!
I will have to unplug my Web-Cam now be4 I do anymore copying of software.....LMAO
I will have to unplug my Web-Cam now be4 I do anymore copying of software.....LMAO
Oh ! and by the way, in almost any country in the world, the act of scanning the contents of somebody's hard-disk or media by any means, without consent, can be considered as industrial spying or privacy violation, which is a criminal offense.
Hey we could even call this piracy !
Hey we could even call this piracy !
You've gotta be kidding me!!! So I guess this is the Close Encounters of the BSA Kind ! I have seen desparate people but this is insane. Who do they think they are dealing with kids in the kindergarden who believe in Boogy Man ?!
Waahoo......best joke of the century, except "zuipnikkel" Bush for president
THE BSA Just dropped in last week, AT MY HOME !!!!!
I was very very lucky, because my system crashed the day before and I don't keep my TL Collection at home. So I was just installing Win98.
I was very very lucky, because my system crashed the day before and I don't keep my TL Collection at home. So I was just installing Win98.
Damn, if the BSA busts my ass they'll find more than 300 warez cdz....
Better hide them....
Better hide them
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i hope this is all in sarcasm. there is no way that you can detect by proxy what people do with their pc. even with the internet a simple installation of zonealarm(.com) will secure all.
in uk there is a paradox with these things:
they cant enter your house, search you, or look at your pc without a warrant (dont allow them to, they cant do anything
they cant get a warrant without looking at your pc
they cant do anything short of finding you holding a warez disk out and voluntarily being photographed!
RIP BSA!
Hehe maybe we should email em tellin them theyre wastin their time - our new mega shields can stop their van. this is the biggest load of bullshit ive heard in a long time.
maybe we can place here some tips about how to hide cd, or something like that.
Also can speak dutch
Also can speak dutch
Somebody mentioned Tempest for the bsa, they can pickup the signals of the monitor, so what if you have the monitor turned after you start to burn a cd??
ay carumba.....this shit tastes betta than my bean cheese burrito esse. i thinks that you can jack one of these mega shield things from albertsons or something. shit thats where i got mine. gimme money ill get you one too esse. but i gotta make profit homes, shit i need my quesadillas esse, shit homes megashield!!!!
Just to correct '1' the police in the u.k. do NOT need a warrant to enter your home, there is a provision in the law that sayes if they beleive you are about to destroy the evidence they can bust yor door in INSTANTLY!!!!!
It's possible to make some of these things using a Tempest's derived system but they are expensive and something like 99% of today's hardware (TV and other electrical devices) is making soo much electrical noise that this seems me bullshit...
On the other way Tempest was thinked when better CPU was working at 10 MHz... nowadays a common PC uses 600 MHz and not less than 25W... Surely bypass this kind of noise should require more than a minivan with a disc, it needs something like a full phisical department working for (every "home" system is a different wave generator)...
BSA cares only appearances.
On the other way Tempest was thinked when better CPU was working at 10 MHz... nowadays a common PC uses 600 MHz and not less than 25W... Surely bypass this kind of noise should require more than a minivan with a disc, it needs something like a full phisical department working for (every "home" system is a different wave generator)...
BSA cares only appearances.
Hey get a Mega shield on yer self, then they wont be able to detect the cd's as you would out of your abode
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