On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Jeffrey l Kaneko wrote:
> <kyrrin_at_bluefeathertech.com> writes:
> > Joe, and other Teledisk group buy participants,
> >
> > I've got some bad news. It appears that, within the last
> > year or two, Sydex has completely sold off the rights to Teledisk, and
> the
> > product itself, to a company called Forensics International. FI's web
> page
> > clearly states that they will sell only to law enforcement agencies and
> > Fortune-1000 companies that can show a need for the software.
>
> Nazi facist bastards! I'll bet there's a *conspiracy* at work here!
> (Where's Fox Mulder when you need him?)
>
> These assholes even claim that:
>
> "TeleDisk was developed to assist the U. S. Treasury Department
> in the processing of computer evidence tied to floppy diskettes."
>
> Does anybody know if this is *true*?! I always thought it was
> developed to distribute software via BBS's (and other electonic
> means).
>
> Rrrrrrrr. Now I'm pissed.
This is undoubtedly complete bullshit. I didn't know that only law
enforcement personel are entitled to do data conversion between different
disk media formats. Someone better tell all these companies providing
data conversion services that they are engaging in prohibited activities,
akin to encrypting your e-mail messages. I can see the day when reading
the source HTML of a web page might even be deemed subversive.
The folks at Forensics International obviously have their heads crammed
way up their asses.
I think it's time for a certain someone to resurrect XenoCopy ;)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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Received on Wed Apr 04 2001 - 19:26:25 BST