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[FYI] FR: Leaked MS memo whips up anti-piracy 'national cause'
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- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 18:53:29 +0100
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Leaked MS memo whips up anti-piracy 'national cause'
By: Thomas C Greene in Washington
Posted: 08/03/2001 at 17:09 GMT
Microsoft France is plotting to manipulate "public authorities and
large institutional actors" to make piracy enforcement, implementing
copy protection and product activation technology, and the fight
against hacking a "national cause" in France, according to a leaked
internal memo obtained by The Register.
The memo, from Euro-MS exec and anti-piracy specialist Guillaume
Tostain to MS's European anti-piracy group and several company
individuals dated 5 March, urges that "Microsoft, alone or jointly
with [trade] associations, must approach public authorities to
persuade them to support our efforts, which should culminate in a
governmental television campaign this Autumn."
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