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Pirate or thief, one high school student in Alpine, N.J., interviewed by TIME is typical. The 15-year-old sophomore owns an Apple He computer and augments his allowance of $10 a week by bootlegging software. He buys a game like Commodore's Omega Race for $29.95, copies it onto a blank disc that costs him about $3 and sells it to his buddies for $10. "It's really simple," says the boy. "Nothing's easier than copying software...
Chuck Clarke of Colby's Alpha Tau Omega wrote another letter of support about this: "Now is the time to unite and fight to preserve our fraternal heritage and ensure that future generations shall possess and preserve the inviolate rights of freedom of speech, expression, and assembly in whatever form they choose...
...issue are two electronic devices, code-named Delta and Omega...
...deal came unraveled in 1978, when an independent expert hired by Elf declared that Delta and Omega were useless. Former Premier Barre approved a secret investigation, and a report was issued. Chief Government Accountant Bernard Beck discreetly shredded his three copies of the report when he retired in 1982; only Giscard and Barre are known to have kept copies, which they took with them into private life...
Rather than close the fraternity or expel the students involved as many observers expected, the school reached a secret agreement with the fraternity. Alpha Tao Omega was allowed to remain open, and the members were forced to perform community service, including the reading and discussion of women's rights literature...