Posted by Mitch Modeleski on July 22, 1998 at 23:17:36:
In Reply to: POLITE NOTICES WERE PLACED IN THE PREFACE OF ALL EDITIONS posted by Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S. on July 22, 1998 at 18:05:11:
Dear Paul,
You are so notified.
Sincerely,
Mitch Modeleski
: SUBJECT: "The Federal Zone: Cracking the Code
: of Internal Revenue" (all editions)
:
: Extant Internet copies have been modified
: in violation of an explicit restriction
: expressly stated in the Preface of all
: authorized, original versions, as follows:
: "The purpose of this requirement is faithfully
: to preserve all punctuation, Capitalization,
: bold, italics and underlines exactly as found
: in the original text."
: This is called the text integrity requirement.
: If the copy(s) in your possession or control
: do NOT contain said statement in the Preface,
: this is proof that you have a bootleg version
: which has been modified illegally.
: If the copy(s) in your possession and control
: DO contain said statement in the Preface,
: then you have already been given lawful and
: adequate NOTICE of this text integrity requirement.
:
: Moreover, the original Preface very clearly states
: that a $25 fee MUST be paid. Quoting the original
: text as follows:
: "If you make unauthorized copies of this book
: without paying the Author for those copies,
: you are obtaining unjust enrichment by doing so,
: and therefore you are no different from the
: government officials who are stealing from you."
: "Single Copy Cost: $25.00 (includes shipping and
: handling via first class U.S. mail)"
: This is called the fee requirement.
: If the copy(s) in your possession or control
: do NOT contain said statements in the Preface,
: this is proof that you have a bootleg version
: which has been modified illegally.
: If the copy(s) in your possession and control
: DO contain said statements in the Preface,
: then you have already been given lawful and
: adequate NOTICE of the fee requirement.
:
: Please see the industry standard definition
: of "shareware" as defined in the Software
: Publishers Association "glossary" at URL:
: http://www.spa.org/
: Specifically, if the fee is not paid within 30 days,
: the software must be removed from the user's system.
: This is standard industry practice.
: Moreover, no one ever obtained this author's
: prior permission to host or post any part of
: "The Federal Zone" anywhere on the Internet,
: and the book was written BEFORE the Internet
: became widely available, with the initial
: release of Netscape circa 1995. Moreover we have
: received no fees whatsoever from any Internet
: Service Providers, covering the period between
: 1990 and the present.
: So, those of you who are complaining that
: no polite notices were ever given, are again
: woefully ignorant of the relevant facts.
:
: Sincerely yours,
: /s/ Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S.
: Author (under a pen name)