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Happyman

URGENT WARNING

I have just returned from my office in Phuket and was suprised to find the building locked.

Phoned the company that I share the premises with and the boss appeared and unlocked the door from the inside !!

Their office was a hive of activity with half a dozen local pooter specialists going through their computers and backing every thing up before deleting the operating systems .

Yesterday a 'Hit Squad' authorised by the governor as part of his "Clean up Phukets Image" campaign and backed up by a heavy police presence, decended upon the Boat Lagoon and Royal Phuket Marina area, impounded all computers and checked for Pirated soft ware. Several companies have closed until they pay a fine of 500,000 Baht and install genuine software.

Today they are still working through the area( hence the panic in the office downstairs) and the word on the street is that the campaign will cover Phuket Town and then move on to Patong and other areas !

Although my laptop was bought new from the ACER dealer in Taiwan I was not given the software disk so to be on the safe side I took it home !!

Will add more info as it becomes available but this seems a lot more serious that the Music scam thing that happened a while ago.