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The Pirates Manifesto - Part II ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Prelude: Before I begin again... Let me say I was shocked at the widespread publication and distribution of my original Pirate's Manifesto. Special thanks go out to the various 'disk mags' that thought my information was of significant importance to include in their mags. I hope we tossed enough light on the lamers that are trying to ruin the piracy scene to send them scurrying for cover. The hidden agenda of the police, software anti-piracy organizations, Bell telephone and modem manufacturers was a topic I had been wanting to share for years. I am glad it was received so well. In honour of the thirst for such information I have decided to sit down again at the old keyboard and further discuss the scene as it is today - and make a few comments on how we can change it for the better. The Art of Piracy is in jeopardy not just from the losers I highlighted in the first Pirates Manifesto. As well, we have a living cancer growing within the ranks of the pirate world caused by many of the people who claim or think they are also pirates. " The only true pirate is one who pirates... all else are just lamers suitable for nuking from BBS's.... " The Unknown Pirate And so without further adieu I bring to you... The Pirate's Manifesto 1994 - Part II ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ a. Asshole sysops b. Asshole users who support asshole sysops c. Assholes who join 'Courier groups' d. Assholes who join 'ANSI groups' e. Assholes who join 'Demo groups' f. Assholes who join 'Virus groups' g. Assholes who are in Pirate Groups a. Asshole sysops In each city there is always going to be at least one bulletin board that rules the scene. New York, Germany, Holland, Toronto, San Francisco, New Jersey, Ottawa, London UK, Montreal etc. This is the natural way that things evolve - the best keep getting better and the lame remain lame. This is the way of the jungle and this is the way that the pirate scene evolved - survival of the fittest and fastest. Unfortunately, over the years, with the rising tide of competition Asshole (c) sysops have appeared on the scene who felt that by slandering or attacking the elite BBS in their area code they might steal some of the 'kewl' uploaders from that system. In our particular area code this childish nonsense has been tried a number of times by juvenile sysops who were envious of the size and speed of the leading elite system. To try to steal callers from that elite system they spread rumours about it being a Fed sting BBS run by the cops; that the sysop cheated callers out of their credits; that the BBS had a hidden homosexual or child molester conference; or other crap designed solely to try to turn callers from calling it. Asshole sysops can usually be easily identified by the amount of time they spend worrying about other bulletin boards in their area code. Instead of devoting their effort to professionally maintaining their BBS, they instead devote inordinate amounts of time posting messages or going into chat mode to put down another local bulletin board - or to start some unfounded rumour. In our town one loser sysop started a rumour that the leading BBS in town was owned and operated by the police. It struck me a bit odd that the sysop, who had been in the pirating scene for almost 8 years had suddenly gone the way of the good forces. It struck me even odder that the police were supposedly operating a BBS where the flow of warez was second to none in the country. I must assume the police are very generous at providing an 8 node BBS for the exchanging of warez between pirates. I find it even more generous that no one in that area code had been busted over the last eight year period. Gawd those police must have patience. To hatch a sting operation and not close the trap after eight years is frankly quite incredible and unbelievable. But than again we all know the loser sysop was simply lying about the Top BBs in a vain effort to get callers to stop calling there. His plan failed. I know for a fact that this type of stupid act is not restricted to our area code. This kind of stupidity has been seen in just about every area code that I call. So if you stop for a moment you will realize that the top sysop in your area code has experienced this kind of petty bullshit at one time or another. I think at this point you may learn to appreciate the shit your Top local sysop must put up with to continue to serve you. A simple look at some of the text files that are currently floating around confirms that stupidity lives on in the minds of the mindless. Some loser spreads an old copy of the user data file of The Hood. Another loser spreads pictures of homo's butt fucking each other and spreads it with a note claiming that it is another sysop. Some loser types up a totally worthless text file giving the names and addresses of some folks that he alleges are police informers. Yes indeed - stupidity is running rampant in the pirate scene even at this very moment. Those examples were released during the month of May 1994 along with about 100 other such crap. So let us look at this situation and see how the actions of these stupid people are harming the scene. Imagine for a moment that the sysop of the most elite BBS in your area code got pissed off about all the silly nonsense that he was being subjected to by these pest. If he chose to simply pull the plug do you really think his loyal callers ( uploaders ) would all simply call the next BBS in that area code ? The odds are not fucking likely. Those callers are gone. They will take their calls to other boards already on their dialing list. When one of my favorite BBS's goes down - I do not look for another BBS in that area code to call. Most elite long distance callers that I know would do the same. So what has the local loser accomplished by causing the top BBS in his area code to shut down ? Nothing. In fact this shit disturber has hurt his entire area code because the flow of files to the bulletin boards will be severely injured by the losers actions. So in short, this dog in a manger act by the loser sysop has just hurt all the other sysops in that area code that depended on that Top system for their feed of fresh warez. The question begs to be asked - how do we deal with the shit disturber sysops that launch attacks against other sysops in their area code ? May I suggest YOU DO NOT CALL THEM. Sounds simple eh? Boycott the fuckers til they give up on the pirate scene and take their stupid power trip game to the public domain BBS world, where they can play childish games forever. If you see some sysop plotting and planning the overthrow or disruption of any other BBS in your area code - boycott the fucker. If you see the sysop spreading poisoned information about other sysops in his area code - boycott the fucker. Send him viruses. Send him trash files that will never execute when run. Send him scurrying to oblivion. Face it. If the asshole sysop is prepared to stoop to slander campaigns to gain control of the warez in his area code - do you really want such an asshole to gain control ? What do you think the odds are that this same loser would not use the same tactics on YOU as a user if he was not happy with you ? Do you truly think he would not stoop to spreading your personal information, speak behind your back, stab you in the back, steal your credits or whatever ? And even if he did succeed at gaining control of all the warez moving in your area code - do you really think that such an obvious loser will attract big name file spreaders like the original Top bbs in your exchange ? And if an asshole sysop tells you to not upload 'his' files to the biggest and fastest BBS in your area code - tell him to fuck off and get a life. He does not own any files. They are released for all to enjoy - and if he has forgotten that - than he is not a pirate - he is just a little child trying to pretend he is a pirate. The point of this paragraph - boycott asshole sysops because they are not working in YOUR interest, your area codes interest, or the pirate scenes interest. The are only working in their own selfish interest for lame ego satisfaction purposes. b. Asshole users who support asshole sysops Unfortunately, where there are asshole sysops, there are also asshole users. You know who they are. These are the losers that have been kicked off the elite systems in their area code because they were such wienies that even the top bbs sysop got sick of them and gave em their walking papers. For some magical reason, asshole users always find asshole sysops to join up with. Sort of like how shit attracts flies. It is a natural evolution of nature. But like the shit and the flies, the asshole sysop and his comrades the asshole users serve no useful function except to help each other become greater assholes. Why was the asshole user kicked off the top BBS in your area code ? Probably because his actions were so offensive that the Top sysop felt the user was not an asset and was probably more of a detriment to the success of his BBS. So he kicked this loser user off to protect the interest of his Top BBs and the interest of his 'good users'. Users are not kicked off any BBS unless their activities are so offensive that they pose a threat to the peace and good order under which a successful BBS must operate. I guess you could say that even in the pirate world there is a degree of self regulation to ensure that assholes do not breed and multiply. The trouble with asshole users is that they carry life long grudges against the Top sysop who kicked em off his BBS. When you team this grudge carrying loser with an asshole sysop they make a great team for causing shit in their area code. Again this leads to more extensive attacks against the Top BBs in the area code by two grieved parties who are attacking for quite different reasons - one out of jealousy - one out of revenge. Either way you cut it - the loser user is of little value in the pirate scene. These lamers are the sort that don't upload anything new in the way of fresh warez. Normally these are the same jerks that in desperation for uploads alter the dates of files, diskedit the version numbers in programs and do other such lame stuff to try to score an upload credit. Another form that these shape shifting losers take is that of the mouthiest lamer on the BBS. I recall seeing on just about every BBS at least one dude who always has two cents to say about every piece of warez that is uploaded - and yet when you check what this mouth-piece has sent in as uploads you suddenly find that you are getting the urge to strangle the asshole. Usually the one who talks the most has the least to contribute to the well being of the bulletin board - hey if he is always mouthing off when does he have time to SEND FILES ? Yet another form of asshole loser that we encounter frequently are those who would never in their lifetime qualify to get onto the Top BBs in their area code. In some cases it is unfortunate because they might have made good users if given the chance. But do to the nature of our high risk trade we cannot afford to be so lenient with the new comers. So rather than meekly accept their position in life, they take a grudge against the elite sysop. By some strange stroke of nature they find their way on to the asshole sysop's BBS where they 'fall in love' with the asshole sysop and believe that he is the next nearest thing to god. If the asshole sysop says the sky is yellow the asshole user will agree and try to convince the world that the sky is yellow - after all the asshole sysop would never lie right ? This presents a real problem. Again the asshole sysop has acquired someone stupid enough to believe the crap and lies that he tells. Now we have an innocent user becoming a tool of the asshole sysop. Sort of like the Hitler Youth Corp during the Second World War who would turn in their parents to the Gestapo because they enjoyed wearing the uniform of the Youth Corp. Unfortunately, once one of these innocents have become brain washed by the asshole sysop we again face a dilemma for which the only solution is to BLACKLIST the loser users. I am not a psychiatrist. But over the past 13 years of pirating I have come to the conclusion that you cannot reform an asshole user or an asshole sysop. Both must be terminated from the scene for they do nothing to benefit it - they simply harm it with their childish campaigns of revenge or jealousy. If they don't want to work together to better the scene than it is most likely that their actions will damage the scene in their area code. c. Assholes who join 'courier groups' One of the latest scams that penetrated the piracy scene were these so called COURIER GROUPS. Frankly, from what I have seen they are nothing more than a convenient method by which a lamer sysop is able to organize a few of his buddies to gather warez on behalf of his BBS. Very seldom do these couriers spread the file any further than to their own bulletin boards. You could say that they are a very self serving group. But in reality these are nothing more than lamers in disguise who hide behind a courier name because no self respecting pirating group would let them be a courier in the PIRATE group. Face reality - REAL PIRATE GROUPS HAVE THEIR OWN COURIERS - REAL GROUPS DO NOT NEED THE SERVICES OF losers like United Couriers or any of the other weedlike clones that have sprung up over the past years. Does the piracy scene need these courier groups ? I think not. If the warez that need transportation are that good than it will be transported to the elite systems by the GROUPS COURIERS. All the courier groups do is slap their self serving advertising onto the kewl warez of the real group and try to steal some of the fame and glory of the REAL PIRATE GROUPS. One phucking lame bunch of losers called ToXiC Couriers were cocky enough to start replacing the pirate groups PREFIX on zip files with their LAME TXC prefix. This was the height of horseshit and nerve. Like think about it - who the hell are the ToXic losers to remove the famous TRSI logo and replace it with their own ? Frankly I don't think TRSI or any of the other PIRATE groups that ToXiC has attempted to steal ( transport ? ) warez from would be impressed to see their logo removed and replaced by the courier. Another thing committed by the lamer courier services is the spread of horseshit files that belong on PD bulletin boards. Recently I saw the spread of a file called Nijellian. Turned out that it was a homebrew piece of crap game produced by some home-game-creating program. Oh yes, this was truly elite - truly worth the efforts of the courier group. Crap. It was a waste of hard drive space and I deleted it within 10 minutes of seeing it and deducted multiple credits for this insult to my users intelligence. One particularly petty group, called United Couriers have shown over the past three years of their existence that they seem unable to recruit any one of intelligence or over the age of 14. Now I have nothing against 14 year olds.. but frankly my dick has been dipping in pussy for more years than that and I consider my dick smarter than most of the United Couriers that I have had the displeasure to meet. Let's spill the beans on these so called Courier groups so everyone can see exactly how their little scam works. Let us say young Johnny Hack has obtains some calling codes and now has the ability to make long distance calls for free. Suddenly he will find himself swamped with offers from other pseudo couriers to join their group. The poor dumb shit, wanting to blend into the scene feels honoured that he is wanted and so he joins the courier group. So they tell this novice courier to spread warez from point A to point B. So far so good - the courier starts to accumulate warez from each of these transactions. Suddenly his codes die. Just as suddenly he finds himself kicked off all the boards where he had accumulated a ton of credits. Next he finds himself kicked out of the courier group because he is no longer of value to them. The shock at having been sucked in by the courier group sours this potential future pirate group courier so that when he does get codes again he works only for himself and not for the benefit of the top boards in his area code. I did a random survey of the fifteen top US bulletin boards, plus three in Canada. It was confirmed to me by each of the sysops that the couriers on their systems were the BIGGEST LEECHES. I thought this was interesting because I thought the couriers job was to get the hottest releases to the fastest boards as soon as they became released. Instead I find out from this survey that the couriers are merely leeches using the disguise of their 'courier group' to gain access to warez that they would not normally have been privileged to gain access to. Well, it would be cool if the couriers were spreading their warez down to the lesser bulletin boards. This would be fair. But instead, it turns out that they spread the files only down to their OWN bulletin boards. Now this is particularly interesting because in a given town where there might be 1 top bbs, 10 real hot Bbs and about 20 wannabe BBSs, it almost always works out that the local Courier site is not one of the biggest or fastest boards in that area. In fact they usually what can best be described as a 'wannabe' pirate board. That would not be annoying, but for the fact that the courier site usually only has a grand total of about 20 users on it. Half of which turn out to be friends of the sysop ( basically leeches ). And again magically it turns out that the courier site in the local area code is usually run by one of the asshole sysops who is doing his best effort to thwart the top bbs in the area code. Competition is cool - but when a courier group attempts to gain control of an area code and eliminate the Top BBS in that area it harms everyone in the pirating scene. The reason I raise this point is to demonstrate how these bullshit courier groups do not service the pirate community, and in fact cause needless duplication of effort - the Top BBS ends up having to import the files itself or through the use of real pirate group couriers, because the bullshit courier groups did not spread the files any further than their own bulletin boards. My proposal for the courier groups is that they be banned from all major elite systems world wide. Any BBS that is dependent of files from one of these supposed 'courier groups' should be boycotted until they kick these lamers off their systems - because the odds are that this is not the major elite bbs in that area code and your continued patronage is simply helping the asshole sysop to disrupt the flow of files in that area. If these couriers are good - they can join forces with the courier divisions of the REAL PIRATE GROUPS. There is no need at all for this bullshit scam of independent couriers. So if the couriers are reading this I just want to say - get a life - join a real group - and leave the world of the make believe couriers behind. If you are not good enough to join with one of the REAL PIRATE GROUPS too bad. And if you have ever been instructed by your courier coordinator to boycott any BBS in your local area code - than the odds are you already should know at this point that you are working for wienies that are only interested in promoting their own self interest and not that of the pirate scene. d. Assholes who join 'ANSI groups' Well here is a topic that is dear to my heart. The little homo's that have all banded together to join 'ANSI pirate groups'. Phuck this is the lamest thing that I have ever seen. These gutless wonders are too afraid to be real pirates, so they hide in their make believe world of ANSI art and think they are kewl dudes. Scuse me Ansi Artist, but I fear you are nothing more than little twerps who live in fear of being busted and so you pretend you are 'artist to the pirate groups'. Let us get something straight right away - real pirate groups already have their own ANSI artist / Graphic dudes and music FX guys. So you dudes are something like the lamers that form courier groups. A nice safe bust free environment where you can pretend your pirates and yet not fear the repercussions or daily threats that true pirates live with. Well let me bring some coffee to wake you up lamers. These little groups you form, and their pseudo pirate sounding names are an insult to the real pirates. Go play on the Internet or other PD networks where you belong and stop pretending that you are anything like pirates. You are just little spineless children who are afraid to mix your little lives up in criminal activity so you produce repetitive boring ANSI's of the same old shit over and over and over and over.... Frankly, do you mindless bastards ever take your heads out of science fiction comic books for more than 1 minute. I bet you piss at the toilet with one hand on the latest issue of Marvel's Whizman with your other hand placed firmly on your boyhood. Seriously, look at those joke bulletin boards you run. They look like pirate boards, they smell like pirate boards... but what is this ... oh a new art rendering by some lamo called Johny Hatchet. Scuse me but what the hell do you need to hide behind a kewl handle for ? Is it because you don't want the world to know who created that latest ANSI ? From the crap that I have seen you guys producing I must assume your embarrassed and that is why you have all decided to hide behind handles. Guess what dudes, the real pirates hide behind handles because of cops - not from fear of art critics. When was the last time you lived in fear that the cops would kick down your door to seize your latest ANSI cartoon work. Take a rest kiddies and face the cold fact of reality - you are lamers in disguise - nothing more - nothing less. But what particularly annoys me about these ANSI groups is the total nerve they have wasting valuable hard drive space on PIRATE BULLETIN BOARDS with their HORSESHIT art renderings. In the month of May, I counted no less than 30 different ANSI ART COMPILATIONS released by no less than 30 different ANSI ART GROUPS. Phuck what a waste of hard drive space. I also think that any LAMO who uploaded this kind of crap onto a true pirate BBS should find himself slapped with triple credit deductions. This ain't warez dudes. Do these ANSI ARTIST really believe pirates want to download their shit to admire Johnny Bozo's rendering of a drooling troll or some other such lame pic ? My answer is to BAN ANSI art compilations from being spread on PIRATE bulletin boards. I also suggest that any self respecting pirate who uploads good warez onto an ANSI ARTIST bulletin board should have his head carefully examined to find out why he is doing such a lame thing. ANSI ART is already being spread heavily on PUBLIC DOMAIN BULLETIN BOARDS so why the phuck is it being allowed to survive and spread on pirate BBS's? And did you ever notice how most of these ANSI art groups have some fruits that compose the most inane 'POETRY'. Shit these morons have people in their 'groups' whose only task is to create POETRY. Like I can really see the connection between these gay little poets and the world of piracy... shit.. send the whole lot packing their bags - if they have any hehehhehe Now I have nothing against homos. But I do get annoyed when I see queers dressing up like cowboyz, construction workers, motorbikers and other tough looking male images. If you are going to be queer than wear pink shirts and yellow socks and be proud of it. Don't try to dress and act like pirates dudes - you are certainly not. e. Assholes who join 'Demo groups' Another trend that is almost as disturbing as the ANSI ARTIST is the way 'demo groups' have found their 'creations' being spread on pirate bulletin boards. Scuse me... but what the fuck do these demos have to do with pirates ? Scuse me... but why the hell are these pieces of crap being stored on pirate bulletin boards ? Scuse me... but does anyone really download these worthless pieces of crap ? And who keeps them in their private 'demo' collections ? Scuse me... but does a 'demo' have a monetary value that makes it worth downloading from a long distance bulletin board ? Hey... call me an old fart, call me an old pirate, but I have grown very tired seeing these 'demos' showing up on pirate bulletin boards. These things are available already on INTERNET and most PUBLIC DOMAIN BULLETIN BOARDS. So what the hell are we doing wasting our energy spreading this crap. Let's leave it to the PD boards. As for the dewds who spend all day creating the latest whizbang demo I just want to say... good luck. I hope you get a job at Walt Disney studios or at some software company. But do you have any life otherwise? Seriously, I hear all the time about these 'demo parties'. Gee it sure sounds swell Mr. Cleaver, can Wally come out and play too... Face it you bunch of losers, if your demo making skills were so shit hot you would be sitting in some software publishing house making programs that we could steal hahahaha. No... instead you lamely sit around trying to twist around the same old routines to try to create some 'different' demo than the one you released the week before. And if you are hoping some powerful software executive is going to spot your clever work and search you out to offer you a job - well forget it dudes - it only happens in the movies. If you are shit hot programmers - than get cracking software and put your skills to GOOD use. But unfortunately, you are the second rate programmers who the software houses did not let in the doors. So why should we waste our hard drive storage on your lame creations and to support your fantasy ambitions of being 'spotted' by a software exec ? Hey... if I see an artist begging on the street I spit at them and kick them in the knee caps. Artist who waste their valuable time making lamo demos should be shot. You have more in common with the lamo ANSI artist than with the PIRATE WORLD that you attempt to blend in with. Keep on doing it but quit wasting valuable pirate resources to spread your vanity artwork crap. It ain't pirate so I nuke it on my BBS. My solution to all this DEMO SHIT is to delete any DEMO'S that are uploaded to a pirate bulletin board site. I think the reasons for nuking these 'werkz of art' are self explanatory. Real pirate groups do not NEED demos for their groups. Their software releases speak far louder to the world than any demo will. If a pirate group cannot release good warez and has to resort to using shitty demos to spread their name than I say that group is not going to be around for very long... their desperate attempt at getting recognition is simply a warning to all other groups that they are unable to release good warez. And to all the gutless half-asses in Europe that think belonging to a DEMO group is kewl - let me just say this - some asswipes also think that pocket protectors and beanies are kewl. Demo groups are not kewl, they are just another lame attempt to look and feel like pirates without taking any risk ! Just remember that if Hitler had won in Europe you gay boyz would have all been taking showers with Mr. Gas and warming up in Mr. Oven. Personally, I have always suspected that demo artist and ansi artist are gay... but that is an unfair stereotype isn't it ??? f. Assholes who join 'Virus groups' Well this is indeed a special class of asshole that needs no intro from me. I think the only ones who don't know these guys are assholes are the virus creators themselves. Rather than waste a whole lot of chatter explaining why I think they are assholes, I think I will simply leave it at this - Virus creators are assholes. Countries that are jealous of the power and richness of the United States actually employ weasels to sit around and build viruses to plague the North American computer scene with. These losers really believe they are going to significantly cripple the 'great imperialist dog's known as the Americans. Now what we have here is an attempt by foreign governments to attack the great American way by the use of virii that have proven to be more of a nuisance than a devastating weapon of the computer wars. What I want fellow Americans who write virii to consider is that by sitting around idly building virii you are indirectly helping the enemies of the United States. Frankly, it is almost an act of treason since you are helping the enemy. I suggest the following. We warn virii writers ONCE ONLY. If they do not stop creating viruses you put a brick through the front window of their house, apartment or car. If they don't get the message by that point we continue a campaign of computer related terror that will make them wish they had never bought a computer. Shit pour a bottle of Javex on their lawn and kill their grass. Tell your local Neo-Nazi guys that the virii maker is Jewish and speaks everywhere about jailing Nazis. That should bring a quick end to these lowest forms of computer society. g. Assholes who are in Pirate Groups Well it simply would not be fair for me not to close by passing a few parting shots at some of the assholes in pirate groups. There are so many types of losers already in pirate groups that deserve to be mentioned here that I am almost afraid I would need Manifesto Part III just to cover them all. But I will try to narrow down the key types of assholes in the pirate scene who need to be eliminated. The elite dude with the overblown attitude. You know the guy I am talking about - two months ago he was the worlds biggest lamer, now he is in a big name group, now he spits at lamers and thinks he is god on earth. Worth terminating from any group simply because this guy has quickly forgotten his roots. He forgets that he also was a lamer. Instead of working to help other lamers that he use to chum with, he forgets them and fails to help enrich their education so that they can reach a higher level of existence in the pirate scene. The elite dude who is unable to string more than just 5 words together when replying to a message. Sort of makes you wonder how they can operate a keyboard and call BBS's when their vocabulary is so limited. The elite dude who calls your BBS - begins to upload some new warez - aborts out of it and than never completes his upload. This is the same type of asshole who only seems to be able to send four out of five of the disk needed to make a program function. The elite dude who takes all the files he can off your BBS to send to other bulletin boards - but somehow never finds any new files elsewhere to upload back to your BBS. The elite dude who apparently is unable to read and sends you the type of files you specifically forbid on your system - ie Novell, Quarterdeck, XXX porno, ANSI collections, shitty demos etc... The elite dude who likes to pages the sysop - ask incriminating type questions - than buffer captures it and sends it to some loser sysop in town for further editing and embarrassing additions to the text. The elite dude who betrays the trust of his friends and shows no loyalty to those who gave him his start in the pirate scene. The elite dude who forgets that we are all in piracy for fun and not profit. You all know I am sure how some 'courier' groups - and hell even some big name pirate groups - charge lamer BBS sysops a fee to send them files each month. Sort of perverts the entire purpose of piracy. The elite dude who is too stupid to join forces with the leading BBS in town and forces the other local importers to have to duplicate his imports because the board the courier sends em to does not spread them. The elite dude who spends more time shitting on other pirate groups than importing files for his local area code. I guess the old saying goes that if you can do the task you instead attack the guys who are doing the real importing. For some reason these unwarranted attacks seem to satisfy the ego problems of such 'elite' type characters. And all elite dudes who forget that once upon a time they too were lamers. They only rose through the ranks because 'someone' gave them a chance or a helping hand. It is their obligation to the pirating society to do likewise and give help to the new generation of pirates who will eventually replace them. The conclusion to this is simple : If elites forget where they come from - maybe they should be sent back there again to rethink their situation over again. Maybe if they were jerked around by all the old time pirates this would smarten them up. In the long run it would help make for a better pirate community. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Well... this should offend a number of losers that are presently in the pirate scene. This document will help you to identify the real losers by the way they will complain or try to ignore the simple statements of fact that expose them and their agenda's. But hopefully with continuing education of our fellow pirates we can begin to return the pirate world back to our glory days where losers were not attempting to phuck up the scene at least once a day. As for me... well I will slip back into my comfortable old chair here happily knowing that the majority of assholes I identified in this Manifesto will never be able to identify me to wreak their lame forms of revenge. And who knows... maybe if this Manifesto appears in enough disk mags again I just might put my fingers to the keyboard once more to have a little chat about how the future of pirating can be improved by better coordination of file distribution across North America. After all... we are all in this for the spreading of elite warez aren't we ? Or are some folks letting ego get ahead of the common good of the entire pirate scene ? Yours truly, -* TC *- June 4 1994 ( Hey you did not expect me to post my full handle did you ? ) Like I am so scared after my release of Manifesto I - NOT!