{Editor's Note:  The following is satire.  The editors and publisher
of RAH in no way condone software piracy.}

Buccaneer Board Raided
by Muffy Mandel

The Software Persecution Cooperative (SPC) triumphantly announced a
raid by federal agents on a popular multiline bulletin board system
(BBS) in Boredman, Ohio (which is probably redundant).  The board,
Adolph and Idi's BBS, was operated by a mysterious group calling
themselves the Dead Dictators Society (DDS).

The DDS is a group of self-proclaimed "software buccaneers" who
operate buccaneer boards named after dead dictators.  The DDS is also
suspected of being the motivating force behind Laffite Software of
New Orleans, which has narrowly dodged all investigations aimed at it
to date.  The SPC refers to the activities of DDS members and their
organizations as software piracy.  A DDS spokesperson, speaking on
condition of anonymity, commented that, "The SPC is a front for the
big time software vendors, who bleed the computing public white with
overpriced, underpowered software.  We're just looking out for the
little guy."

The FBI released a partial list of equipment seized in the raid:
123 personal computers of various makes and models; misc. peripheral
equipment, including 136 modems; 3 photocopiers; 22 cutlasses; 5
black powder pistols; a 32 gun sailing frigate; 60 fragmentation
hand grenades and 2 150-megaton nuclear warheads.  The haul was
characterized as "average armament for this type of board."     {RAH}
