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FR: Leaked MS memo whips up anti-piracy 'national cause'

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/17445.html

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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