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JEFF SMART'S ILLEGAL
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An article rewritten from the underground fanzine "In Medias Res" by
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King Fisher. Original text by Zike (Per) from Z&Z productions.
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We all know that you got busted, but what happened?
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May 18th 1989, 7 a.m. (morning). Bell rang. (Oh... I know him aswell -
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Ed), three policemen came (they came? Hmmm... -Ed (Ed is getting drunk
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-ed)) and looked through my room, searched through everything, took
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all my computers, disks and magazines away.
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November 6th, 1989, high noon. Had to get to court. Said I never
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swapped pirate software. Judge said he didn't believe a word.
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May 22nd 1990, five minutes to twelve. Second time at court. Judge
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said five witnesses had testified I never swapped software, one said I
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did. Case was dropped because I was "presumed innocent".
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October 9th 1990, around five. Never equipment back, but I did. Only
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my 1541 was not working anymore, until today...
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Illegal #37 was released years ago, when did you decide to push out
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#38 and why?
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NORMAN (CONAN, ex-lead-cracker of ELITE fame) and me had telephone
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chats almost every day and we went on talking about going to VENLO
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(meeting) again to check if everything was still allright... I had the
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idea of accompany our trip to VENLO with the final release of ILLEGAL
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#38. NORMAN thought that was a cool idea, amd without having a
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computer ready of being into business or whatever we managed to push
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it out in time. Only thing that worried us later, was that VENLO was a
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great heap of shit, so it was not really worth the effort. Having
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looked at ILLEGAL #38 again, I thought it was a great issue for all
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the old guys who joined the years 1986 to 1989 at the top, and it were
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the old guys who liked it most. Thinking about another issue released,
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I probably shake my head, because there's really not much time left
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for doing it, BUT if there is anyone who would take over the spreading
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and printing I would work on it, too. The thing I had most joy was
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writing the "STORY OF SYSTEM FOUR", where I could slag anyone off
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without letting anyone know (until now -Ed). Sound wicked, I know, and
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so it was.
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You knew that I was the first to push out a pirate magazine? The first
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ILLEGAL appeared in January '86 and covered two (admittedly very bad)
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pages! Anyway, the biggest problem every month was to release it in
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time for meetings and parties (Yeah... We know the feeling... Phew...
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-Ed) Greatest circulation was when it has been released at the
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PCS-SHOW '88 in London. I guess there were more than 1000 copies going
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around... Best thing happened was having MITCH of Eagle Soft Inc
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interviewed for Illegal and seeing groups getting angry on demo or
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cracking group's chart. Liked the way it was spread though it's
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thousands times easier if you arrange a mag on disk, right?
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Watch out for I.M.R. issue #2, featuring JEFF SMARTS OWN COLUMN!
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(Unfortunately "In Medias Res #2" was never released, as far as I
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know.)
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Back to the Triad Illegal Archives.
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