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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

1703.0. "Beware of CRUNCH" by COOKIE::WITHERS (Trad. Anon. c. 1988) Mon Sep 19 1988 23:09

Beware of CRUNCH and friends according to Usenet, its a pirated beta
version:

Posted by: decwrl!ucbvax!pasteur!ames!oliveb!amdahl!kim
Organization: Amdahl Corporation,  Sunnyvale, CA 94086
 
 
[ "All sweet things have one thing in common ... a tendency to make you sick." ]
[                                    --Soolin                                  ]
 
Mostly, I've seen this on BBS's, etc. as "CRUNCH.ARC" and "CRUNCH2.ARC".
 
The following taken from GEnie.  I dunno as to it's validity, but thought
it was worth passing on ...
 
/kim
 
 
 
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I got this file off a BBS in Florida, it must be spread very fast cause
of the possible danger and other stuff, just downlaod it and read it,
this is getting riducoulus ...
 
M. Osborne
 
============================================================================
 
Attention all persons that have a program beign called "Master Cruncher" or
any alterations of that.  It seems that a group of pirates have edited out
the Copyright notice and have claimed the program as there own.
 
This Utility is not Public Domain nor a Pirate utility, it is
a Commercial program that was going to be sold in The Federal Republic of
Germany.  There were plans to market it in the USA, but due to the massive
spreading of the utility, there is no hope of making any kind of profit,
nor will there be any other such utilities produced due to these problems.
 
It is not cost effective to try and track down who did this terrible thing,
so you can just thank who ever the persons involed for screwing up the
future of such useful utilities you might have had.  Please notify all
sysops or board operators that this file should be deleted from file
sections and not posted again.	I was really surprised to hear that it
was posted on 2 major commercial networks, I would have thought they
would have questioned this utility cause of no documentation or origin
of source.  I would have thought the sysops would be a little more
responsible to there amiga comunity and check things that are questionable
out first.
 
A final note, the version that seems to have made it's way all over the
United States is still a beta version and has a  Serious!  bug in it.
 
I do not accept any responsiblity for any damage caused by the faulty
program.  "It is not my fault everyone pirated it".  I strongly suggest you
uncrunch everything crunched with it or things might begin to happen you
wish didn't.  You have been warned of the problem.  Please spread this file
as fast as my program was spread to warn people against the possible
destruction of all there [sic] data.
 
			  Sincerly,
 
			  Bit Soft Programing (BSP)
			  Hans Mayor
			  Post Fach 1123
			  8623 Staffelstein
			  West Germany
 
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