Posted by Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S. on July 22, 1998 at 18:05:11:
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)