You must know that just keeping warez available on your systems, makes you eleigible for copyright violations? My daughter dated one of these warez-pirates for a while. Pirate is exactly what most of them are. Unlicensed commercial software is what most of that stuff is. Which means that copyright violation is exactly what you are doing and condoning when you knowingly leave that stuff there. This makes both you and your company vulnerable to shutdown. Have you never heard of a software audit?

-----Original Message----- From: Alexei Roudnev [mailto:alex@relcom.EU.net] Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 9:56 PM To: Moe Allen; Nanog Subject: Re: Information from an FTP violation this weekend.

Just enjoy it! You can grow up any collection of warez on your site simply allowing READ access for the files in _incoming_ directory. Of course, you should loot after your collection - drop warez which are not for you asnd feed those you want to have.

-:)

----- Original Message ----- From: "Moe Allen" <moe@vidnet.net> To: "Nanog" <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 11:39 AM Subject: Fw: Information from an FTP violation this weekend.

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Good luck, guys. We had left an incoming open on our FTP

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Unix guys to upload code on. BTW, this occurred over the Thanks Giving Holiday. Anyway a guy from .ru uploaded the latest version of (sp)Tumbarator 5 which had just been released in Europe,

server for our that morning &

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Mummy. Then the bum put our IP address on all the warez sites and we had so may people hitting our server that we had no bandwidth left back to the Internet and no more ports on our FTP Unix server.