WD> Fabio Bizzi can tell you a story about a police crackdown on Fidonet in WD> Italy.
a very sad story, I has been lucky, others not. In Italy,at that time, a new police was fond: "Informatic Police". In short, that new police had to show that it worth and it found a small number of pirate bbses selling copied software, one of them was a member of fidonet, so a great number of fidonet bbs was closed, the hardware was confiscated and the sysops was reported even with no evidences.
Later the sysops was acquitted, but fidonet in Italy was burst forever.
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