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    Please do not make requests for copies of radio programming software which is sold (or was sold) by the manufacturer for any monetary value. All requests will be deleted and a forum infraction issued. Making a request such as this is attempting to engage in software piracy and this forum cannot be involved or associated with this activity. The same goes for any private transaction via Private Message. Even if you attempt to engage in this activity in PM's we will still enforce the forum rules. Your PM's are not private and the administration has the right to read them if there's a hint to criminal activity.

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    For M/A Com/Harris/GE, etc: there are two software packages that program all current and past radios. One package is for conventional programming and the other for trunked programming. The trunked package is in upwards of $2,500. The conventional package is more reasonable though is still several hundred dollars. The benefit is you do not need multiple versions for each radio (unlike Motorola).

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Federal Prosecutorial Guidelines re-written?

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Utter exaggeration of the situation!

The criminals in question stole intellectual property, gained unauthorized access to computer software and equipment that they had no authorization to use, and were prosecuted for their crimes. This has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH SCANNING TRUNKED RADIO SYSTEMS!!!
 

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Not scanners, but it does have everything to do with using a Motorola radio to listen to a trunked radio systems.

That's what his point was all about.
 
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rescue161 said:
Not scanners, but it does have everything to do with using a Motorola radio to listen to a trunked radio systems.

That's what his point was all about.

I didn't read it that way. By encouraging everyone to 'buy a scanner while you still can' he at least implied that there was some connection to scanning and that this sort of prosecution might make scanners unavailable some day. That's the exaggeration. Motorola isn't after scanner users. They are after people who use Motorola's proprietary programming software to set up transceivers without permission.
 
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