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I used to live in Allentown, PA about 5 years ago when the ST first
came out. Our local club (ABE's ACES) did not condone pirating. I
moved to Philly area and found the Philly Area Comp. Society (PACS)
which had an Atari ST Sig after about 2 years of looking. Although
some of the members pirated software, no trading was done at club
meetings. 

In the meantime, I had visited 3 clubs in the south jersey (Philly
suburb really) area. Each had a club meeting which consisted of a demo
of a pirated piece of software. "Uh I'm not really sure how to ....,
as I don't have any docs for this." was a real common expression heard
during those demos. After this demo, a flurry of disk coppying
activity occured around the 2 or 3 machines present. I only attended
1-2 meetings at each. When I remarked on the number of people copying
software, I was told the same thing. "It doen't make a difference,
no-one will be hurt." Well, I can tell you that the 2 stores which
sold Atari software (1 of which had the machines also) are no longer
in business. However the store on the other side of the river in
Philly moved on to sell megas and lots of Atari h/w (at least until
Atari started their latest round of stupid dealer disinsentive
programs, but that's another story.)



brian
oplinger@crd.ge.com

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