RE: cracking site - how do we shut it down?

[Jean Cyr]

At 08:25 PM 6/9/99, you wrote:
>My solution (as proposed) is for the Palm shareware collection sites
>to save a small amount of money out of each transaction to hire a
>lawyer, detectives, etc. specifically for enforcing copyrights and
>shutting down such sites and bringing lawsuits against the violators,
>and publish this fact boldly.  A sort of "Don't worry about the FBI or
>SPA, we have a lawyer that just loves filing injunctions and he has
>several summer law students paid to make your life miserable if we
>find out you are responsible for the cracked software".

The problem is with the ISPs. I'm not suggesting that they police the
WEB, but rather that they cooperate in identifying those of their customers
that break the law. Presently they refuse to do so without considerable
legal pressure.