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From: rtczegledi@crocus.waterloo.edu (Richard Czegledi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: No more Cinemaware stuff for Amiga !!!????
Summary: pirating on the amiga as opposed to other machines. my views
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Date: 12 Aug 89 02:08:34 GMT
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While I do find that there is a lot of amiga piracy, other computers
--> ARE <-- worse off.

There was a local board that was up, since moved or something, that
ran off of an atari st.  This board was a dedicated pirating board,
with gobs and gobs of storage, a 9600 baud modem, and was a member
of an international atari-st pirating organization (st-bandits or
something like that).  A whole bbs!  Supported IBM too!  

these people got files well before they came out in the stores ---
CRACKED!  With manuals and everything!  

This was a heavy duty organization, and to date, I have never even heard
of such establishments for the amiga.  While they probably do exist, this
setup claimed to have nodes in toronto, and nodes in most major cities
all over the planet.  The FBI/mounties :-) would have a field day!

Personaly, I observe that most people obtain bootleg copies of software
every now and then.  It's wrong, of course, but what can they do?
As for me, I've got some software I'm not using (all 'ORIGINAL' with
packaging etc...). Here's the list:

StarGlider $10   Ultima IV $35   DMCS  $10 (no manual. stolen, w/box/disk)
DigiPaint  $15   Reason    $40   SA3D  $65 (full sculpt animate 3D)
DPaint II  $25   Marble Madness  $10   Animation Stand  $10
Balance of Power 1990 edition:  $30    Barbarian  $10

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