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Pirate's Manifesto VIII
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- Released 20 July 1994 -
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TODAYS TOPIC :
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The reason why losers are having such an easy time
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spreading viruses on 'elite' bulletin boards...
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or...
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How Amiga operated pirate bulletin boards are killing
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the IBM warez scene by allowing viruses to spread cuz
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they are totally unable to do even the simplest virus
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check on inbound files...
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PRELUDE :
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Here we are into the third week of July and losers have gone nutz
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shipping out viruses and fake files all over the place. I guess
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it was a boring week and these losers could not find any flies to
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pull the wings off. As I sat in the comfort of my evil computing
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room a light suddenly went on in my head - I finally realized how
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these losers were able to get their damn virus laiden programs all
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over the world without anyone catching onto to their bogus files.
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MANIFESTO BEGINS :
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Look at the scene today and you will find that there are two main
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groups of pirate bulletin boards running in the top of their class
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worldwide.
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On one hand you have the sysops who are running IBM computers and
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using PCBoard, PCExpress or some lame Forum hack.
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On the other hand you have sysops who are running AMIGA computers
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and using AmiExpress, Infinity, Tempest or other PCBoard style clones.
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The biggest difference between the two groups is that shitty Amiga
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BBS's that are handling IBM warez CANNOT TEST FOR VIRUS !!! They
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simply do not have the capability. This means that I could send my
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entire collection of viruses to an AMIGA run bulletin board and the
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damn thing would let everyone of those virii onto its downloading
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list.
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Now I know right away you will jump in and say that there are a great
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number of IBM systems that are not running virus checkers either.. but
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the point is not important. What is important is that some of the
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worlds fastest and biggest pirate systems are running on AMIGA's.
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At this point I have to ask myself a simple question - what the fuck
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are IBM computer owners doing entrusting the fate of their computer
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and hard drives to sysops who run Amiga bulletin boards ?
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I took a look at the top uploaders on some of these AmiExpress bulletin
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boards and was not surprised to find that most of the top uploaders of
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IBM pirate warez owned PC'S. After all, why would an Amiga dude use
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his computer to spread warez for another computer platform.
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So what is the psychology here. Why are the worlds best uploaders
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spreading their zero minute files onto bulletin boards that obviously
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are not able to check the files out for viruses. Are we so desperate
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for elite sites that we blindly upload to Amiga bulletin boards and
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take files from them - never knowing what the hell we just downloaded
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might contain ?
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Let us face reality for a second - true world class file spreaders do
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not have time to sit and check out every file they just downloaded off
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these major elite sites. World class spreaders grab the files and run
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them as fast as they can move em. It is only after some poor dolt sits
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and actually runs the damn thing that it is found out that it destroys
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hard drives. Than the poor courier has to run like crazy to have the
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file nuked off the sites he sent it to - or else his reputation goes
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down the toilet.
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I am beginning to think that we are gluttons for punishment. I am
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beginning to think that we enjoy downloading files that are later
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found to have nasty viruses and trojans on them. Maybe we are
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a bunch of phucking suicidal lemmings. Maybe we should open our eyes
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and see how our own poor spreading practices are injuring the scene
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to the point where no one trust any zero day warez anymore.
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I know in our own local scene that over half the 'experienced' users
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will not download any zero minute files off an Amiga operated BBS.
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Instead they wait two or three days for fatality reports to come
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pouring in - why waste credits or your hard drive to a potential
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virus - let some other sucker take the chance is their motto...
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So what is the answer. Well it is one that is not going to make many
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friends on some of the elite systems that are using the Amiga and
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AmiExpress. I say boycott them. If your IBM than take your business
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to a BBS that is running IBM. Why should IBM owners prop up and support
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bulletin boards that cannot protect IBM computer owners.
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Or think of it this way - Amiga owners have always held their nose when
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talking about the IBM. To them the IBM is equal to the anti-god or
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worse - equal to wearing clean underpants.
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Now I know it is a horrible thing to propose but we must face the reality
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of the times we are living in. Viruses are becoming too common place on
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these Amiga operated bulletin boards. They cannot to do the simplest of
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virii testing. So taking files off an Amiga operated BBS is something
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like phucking every drunk girl in a bar. You know your are going to get
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burned because there is absolutely no protection against nasty things.
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But let me give you another valid reason to begin the exodus from using
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Amiga bulletin boards and start using IBM operated bulletin boards - and
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that is the fact of 'continuity' As everyone is aware at this point,
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Commodore computers went tits up. They are history and their future has
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been brought to an abrupt end by the collapse of the company that once
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fathered the C64. This means that hardware and future developments for
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that computer died along with the death of the company.
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Sysops who are running their bulletin boards on Amiga computers are facing
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a short and bleak future. As their machines fuck up and die they will not
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be able to go to the corner store to purchase new parts - or even a new
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motherboard. When Amiga bulletin boards die their death is not for days
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but for weeks or months at a time as they scramble to find parts to fix
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whatever has broken.
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So let us look at this from a purely greedy perspective - I upload an
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average of 500 megs to any of the major sites that I am on. I seldom
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download anywhere near the amount of files that I send there. I like
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to know that those massive credits I have placed on a BBS will be there
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for quite some time. Someday I just might want to take a break and
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enjoy downloading like a glutton for a while. What am I going to do
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when all these Amiga boards die and take my credits with them. Lose em.
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Like all good elites I select the boards I do business with based on the
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confidence that the board I am uploading to will be in existence for many
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years into the future. We simply choose to send our files to boards that
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have been around the longest time and have the best prospect for a long
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and happy future. No one likes having to keep changing boards every month
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just because Johnny Sysop got married and his wife doesn't like computers
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or some dweeb sysop gave up cuz he got spooked by threats of cops etc.
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So at this particular point in history I look out on the pirate world and
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I see the end of the AMIGA operated pirate bulletin boards coming quickly.
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Their demise is assured simply because they fail to provide IBM owners
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with the level of protection that we need - so that we can avoid
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downloading and spreading virus laiden programs that slipped by the
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Amiga run bulletin board's file checker.
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I know this Manifesto will annoy many of my favorite sysops who run some
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of the worlds greatest pirate sites on Amiga computers and AmiExpress
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BBS software. But at some point the truth has to come out and be slapped
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in some peoples face. Normally we are all so busy spreading the latest
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and greatest warez that we don't take time to sit back, look at the scene,
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and see where it is going. Maybe that is the problem with the elite sites
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that are running Amiga computers for their BBS. They fail to see how times
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are changing and that their demise is assured if they don't keep in step
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with the specialized needs of their IBM pirate members.
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On the other hand, I am certain that a great number of sysops who run IBMs
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with IBM bulletin board software will nod in agreement with me.
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On the other hand, I am certain that a great number of elites who have
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downloaded virus infested programs off Amiga operated bulletin boards will
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agree with me.
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On the otherhand, I am certain that a great number of IBM owners who have
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been phucked by viruses found on files that were originally uploaded to
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Amiga bulletin boards will agree the time has come to remove the Amiga
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bulletin boards from the IBM warez distribution chain.
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I guess the only ones who would disagree with this are people who run
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bulletin boards on Amigas - or people who need those Amiga bulletin boards
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to upload their virus infested files to.
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CONCLUSIONS :
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~~~~~~~~~~~
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For elite spreaders :
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Start finding IBM operated bulletin boards to
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take your calls to. There are plenty of excellent PCBoard BBS's out
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there and you will have no problem adapting from AmiExpress commands
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to PCBoard - after all, Mike Thomas, the original author of AmiExpress
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built his BBS software to look and feel like PC Board. In particular
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you should look for bulletin boards that do more than a simple check
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on the CRC integrity of your uploads. If the board does not check
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for viruses than you are defeating the whole purpose of moving away
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from the Amiga operated bulletin boards. Find a board that takes
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virus testing seriously.
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For Amiga sysops :
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You must recognize that your time is drawing
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near and that your computer is now in serious jeopardy of failing with
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no chance of getting replacement parts in the future. Seriously consider
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ditching that CPU and buying an IBM. You will be able to use your
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hard drives and modems on the new IBM computer so your cash outlay will
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be nowhere as severe as that facing some new sysop trying to match your
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size and speed. The Amiga warez scene is dead. Spreading demos and
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music shit is not piracy - you are simply becoming lame Amiga PD boards
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with Elite IBM warez on them. Take the hint and make the change.
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For Pirate Groups :
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Aren't you getting just a little tired of seeing
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bogus releases coming out for your groups that have viruses in them. Do
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you think that by appointing Amiga operated bulletin boards as your WHQ,
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USHQ, or EHQ you are doing yourself or anyone else a favour. Think about
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it for a moment - if you are suppose to be such mega phucking elite IBM
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pirates, than why the hell are you letting Amiga computers serve as your
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world class sites. The time has come for your seniors to seriously look
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at all your sites and migrate over to IBM operated bulletin boards. Those
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IBM groups that do not migrate onto IBM operated bulletin boards are about
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as stupid as General Motor's employees driving Russian build Ladas. If
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you are truly IBM elite pirates - than start acting like it - use IBM
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operated bulletin boards to handle your HQ's. I find there is nothing
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funnier than a group that boast of being the most elite for IBM using
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an Amiga operated bulletin board for their HQ. Shit, why not go all the
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way and use a C64 bulletin board - it makes about as much sense. Just be
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sure that the HQ boards you select to represent your group have the best
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and most intensive virus checkers running against every shit file that
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is uploaded to them. Than at least you can sleep assured that you have
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done everything possible to cut down on viruses being slipped onto fake
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releases of your warez.
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For Courier Groups :
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Why are you wasting your time spreading files onto
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any Amiga operated bulletin boards. Should we really be propping up those
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boards and giving them a reason for continued existence or should we force
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those sysops to get in tune with the world and buy IBM and run IBM. The
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shit files you are picking up off those Amiga bulletin boards are a
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reflection on your groups when you slap your advertisement onto them. How
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do you feel each time the files you spread are later reported to be full
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of viruses and you get the blame. Think about it and you will realize
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that most of those virus loaded files came from Amiga operated pirate
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boards that had no method to detect IBM viruses when they were first
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uploaded to them. If you take files only off IBM systems that do an
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intensive virus check your spreading will be a lot more productive because
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you will know that the files you are moving are clean ! Make your HQ
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boards IBM only - and with intensive virus testing at that !
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For Losers who like to infect IBM files :
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Keep laughing and having fun
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with your childish games. Your work is only helping to prove that the
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time has come for the IBM pirates to distance themselves from Amiga
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operated pirate boards. The more you load viruses onto those Amiga
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bulletin boards the quicker the IBM pirate community will see that
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this Manifesto is correct. As I don't expect all the little lame
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assholes who write viruses to retire or drop dead suddenly, I expect the
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words of this Manifesto will become truer every day. I feel sorry for
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the type of dweeb who sits around thinking he is clever at phucking up
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peoples hard drives or damaging the reputation of world class pirate
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groups. The only good news is that such losers do not tend to last
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long on the scene and move onto other interesting hobbies like
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collecting dog turds and sniffing bike seats.
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Yours truly
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- TC -
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( you know i never give away my handle in these things )
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If you want to reach me to give me some feedback, than look for
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me on Assasin's Guild. It seems the sysop on Mirage became a
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little upset about an incident involving his private kiddies
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porno conference and copies of those file listings being spread
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around. All I can say is that it was not me - I don't care if
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you are into buggering chickens or pounding your flesh into your
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palms at night... I did not spread that file list or the user
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list for that conference - although I would have if I had got
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it first.
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