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- From: Nathan Black <nblack@awod.com>
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- Subject: Re: No more Starfighter? (was Re: AB3D II beats Quake....)
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 17:19:36 +0000
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- > By the way I recently looked at the pirarte section on a local BBS
- > and they haven't gbotten anything new since like October 1995, so I wouldn't
- > say that the pirate scene is "thriving" really... no new games are really
- > coming out, maybe.. but they didn't have VK, or gloom, or XTReme racing, or
- > ab3d, or worms, or anything... so at least here in the US mebbe piracy IS
- > blown out of proportion and lack of distribution can be blamed.
- >
-
- Umm I hate blow a hole in this idea, but the truth is, most of the "big"
- pirates don't use bbs's anymore. They are on the internet, which is a MUCH
- cheaper way to swap files.
-
- Nathan
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