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AT&T begins enforcing intellectual property rights (jan 1, 1980 – mar 12, 1984)

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The rapid growth of Usenet lead AT&T to see potential for profit from their software success, so they began to enforce their intellectual property rights in the early 1980s through litigation

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jan 1, 1980
mar 12, 1984
~ 4 years and 2 months