“The bourgeois software is over” - AS

Tue 10 Mar 1998 00:00, Andrew Savichev (2:5020/400) wrote to All:

At midnight you decided to deal with piracy? ;}

[skippy...]

AS> To be complacent about this and find out who exists for whom,
AS> a pirate for a hacker, or a hacker for a pirate, or both for our
AS> “Spectrum freebies”, of which we have 80% :(, time has passed!
AS> The bourgeois software is over!

It is not over. The level of releases has simply increased too much. Previously, there was a tradition of adding who knows what kind of intro to a prog and releasing it all at once, while
both the version and the prog itself were often buggy. Now, there are no more raw releases left.
As a result, there is a smaller number of released progs. And there are still a lot of interesting things on the Internet.

AS> Therefore, for a while we need to. we need to introduce EXTREME!

Dismemberment ;) (c)

AS> And the second question: how to deliver a FATAL Blow to the pirates, serving
AS> their hackers and 50% of buyers who are not disdainful of buying stolen software.
AS> The easiest and most unrealistic thing would be to persuade these buyers not
AS> to buy stolen,

$-D

AS> that is, simply “encode them”!

No problem: action on the masses with the help of NLP ;)

AS> In the most interesting place of any game it lights up for a while
AS> the inscription "You bought stolen software!

It was in ZH-1 (1995).

AS> Tomorrow you will not have new games and the Spectrum will die"

=Zh8[ ] Very scary... :)

AS> But then it will affect the psyche of honest people. Although if
AS> the person is honest, then this shouldn’t hurt him.

Honest people don’t buy from pirates ;)

AS> But even a dishonest person may have buried his conscience so deeply that
AS> he doesn’t care, although he
AS> probably still doesn’t give a damn about Spectrum. ;) You can also draw a pitiful picture of a crippled Diz at the entrance to each BBS
AS> and the inscription “Friend, you
AS> are crippling me by stealing copyright software.” In general, _total
AS> psychological terror_ is quite an effective thing, especially since we have
AS> susceptibility to this has been in our genes since the time of the father of all nations.

38))

AS> Try to find another way out of the current situation.

As I say, everything is useless. Those who could were convinced. All that remains are sanctions, and
this is the SOS project, and this is undemocratic, and this is an infringement of human rights, and this
is what you are against. And %\7un. ;)

PS: Not as scary as they make him out to be. According to the existing stereotype, all troubles come from pirates. Not all of them. So they did everything they could with the pirates. It's time to look into
other "holes" in the Spectrumзнамени.