Amnesia 9/Amnesia - Issue 09 (1993-02-01)(Eclipse)(Disk 2 of 2).adf/ARTICLES/club.txt

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           DSUNDAY CLUBSN                   computer  as  powerful  as  this with
                                          copyable  software so I bought it, so
                                          off I went with my 500 quid comp.
 Sunday clubs........I am sure every-
one has been to  one  at some time or     Now everything was fine until I tried
other  (well in  DUBLIN anyway)  some     to copy some  of  the games and found
for curiosity  some to get the latest     out to  my horror that they would not
warez, but what are they.  The major-     copy. Shock started to creep in on me
ity of them  are for lamers and fuck-     that  I  had  just  bought a 500 quid
ing  lamers  run  them  for their own     comp and the fucking software for the
financial gain!                           machine averaged out at about 30 quid
                                          plus.  Now I remembered the shit of a
 OK lets get  a  few points straight,     salesman  saying "YES" so I went back
first off we were all lamers to start     into  him  and  told  him  what I had
with.    I myself started off with an     tried to do, he then told me that you
AMIGA  with  no  previous computer to     couldn't  copy  original  software, I
owning an AMIGA I bought it two years     told  him  that  part of the reason I
ago 'cause  I  was just blown away by     had bought the  computer was the fact
the power of it.  Before parting with     that he had told me that I could copy
my hard earned cash I was a bit worr-     software,now he then began to realise
ied about  the  price of the software     that I was not a very happy person,so
for the Amiga so I asked the salesman     he  then  done  something that really
could you copy the software, he repl-     was not in his interest  (now I won't
ied  "YES"  well how could I refuse a     mention who this  guy is or what shop
it is, but I will give you a hint,its     ing money from  an  entrance  fee and
a BIG shop on O`CONNELL ST on the 3rd     selling disks,  what with having kids
floor and the guy has since left, now     running up to you saying  "GIZ A COPY
I bet you don't know where that is eh     OF XENON 2"  they thought it was very
..he..he) he  told  me  about  a club     lame.  So they started their own club
that meets every Sunday in the ORMOND     in  a community centre in BALLYFERMOT
HOTEL.                                    with  a  low  entrance  fee and cheap
                                          disks.Everything was fine for a while
So that  very next sunday off I went,     then they decided that they wanted to
now this  club  was then run by a guy     return to the city centre,now at this
called JASON, now  all  he  done  was     stage I was really into the  SCENE, I
hire the  room in the hotel for comp-     had quite  a  number of cool contacts
uter freaks to come in and meet every     and always had something new, I  obj-
Sunday, now why did he do this? Cause     ected to  the move and said that they
the fucker was making money.   Now he     were getting back to the ORMONDE type
was cute,   he knew what was going on     club, they assured me that it  would-
there was  kinda  illegal so he would     n't.  So  off  we went to a new hotel
say  to  anyone asking what was going     called  the  CLARENCE  and every week
on "Whatever is going on I don't know     that  passed  the club got bigger and
anything about it".                       bigger. Now this would be fine if the
                                          guys that  were  coming were cool but
I went  in  there  every week and met     everyone was a fucking lamer, the wh-
some cool guys like TDK and they like     ole  fucking  family  was coming with
me didn't like the idea of JASON mak-     their  comps  to  get  all the latest
games  the  Sunday  after we got them     Now the  CLARENCE club was taken over
and then all the  people who got them     by a  group  of  guys, who's  names I
that day were  going  home and giving     can't remember (aint that so ED) they
them  to  their friends and their fr-     took it over with the expectation th-
iend and their friends friends and so     at they too were going to have a busy
on and so on....                          club and most importantly make money.
Now that has to be fucking LAME.          But it  didn`t last cause they could-
                                          n`t  include the all important warez.
Now  I  pointed this out to  TDK  but     In the meantime JASON had stopped his
they were quite happy, and why, cause     club and restarted it only to stop it
there were about 70 people in the pl-     for the last time,also at around this
ace and they were charging them in, I     time  BALLYFERMOT  was  also  winding
then  decided that I was not going to     down  and  that  also  finished,  and
support  this  lameness, and  after a     there were no tears.
few weeks  TDK  opted  to return to a
small  private club back in BALLYFER-     So now  in the last few weeks we have
MOT for should I say the ......ELITE.     a new lame club  started  back  up in
(heh,thats not the word I'd use......     the ORMOND HOTEL, run by three lamers
- PoLaRiS)                                who  are  only  in  it  for their own
                                          gain.
TDK  (or most of them)  are opening a     Hey come on  you  three  the scene is
shop  very  soon  and I wish them all     the  scene  cause  its only for those
the best).                                who are interested in it not for lam-
                                          ers who can go out  on  a  Sunday and
pay  3 quid  to get all of the latest     well known  Irish PC BBS  had to shut
warez,  clubs  like that do not exist     cause  it  was  about  to  be busted.
anywhere in the world because of very     Over in  ENGLAND there is VERY strict
tight copyright laws,  IRELAND'S  are     copyright  with  award money of #1000
not  as  tight  but could be if clubs     for information of persons selling or
like that are to  spread the warez to     spreading pirate software, anyone who
any JOE SOAP WITH AN AMIGA.               even tried to operate a  "sunday type
                                          club"   would be considered suicidal.
Now there  are  genuine  AMIGA  clubs     And  it  looks  like  it  is going to
dedicated to  the AMIGA where you can     arrive over here soon.   New software
learn about  your  computer and where     copyright laws  DID  come into effect
there would be no sign of a X-COPY on     around this time last  year  but  de-
a machine.                                tails seem to be very scarce.........
(well not  during club hours anyway).     so for everyones sake...just keep yer
(CUGI would be a good example - PLRS)     fucking mouth shut  about  having, or
                                          can get ANY TITLE, keep it in a clos-
 Part of the reason why there is very     ed circle and amongst friends.
little copyright over here on comput-
er software is because it is not that       THESE SUNDAY CLUBS ARE SOOOOOOO
widescale.  But with the AMIGA market                FUCKING LAME
being flooded with pirate software it
wont be long  before we see the likes     Well these are my views anyway,so why
of F.A.S.T. having a representive set     doesn't someone air their views about
up a office over here,only recently a     them, the  only  good thing I can say
about them is that they got me start-
ed.

          J/\Y / ECLIPSE

Yeah, I  fully agree with all that, I
mean, these  clubs  are like hives of
lamers,  mostly  kids,  who  have  no
interest in the scene,or in the Amiga
as far as serious work goes!  And the
guys who  run the clubs act like Gods
with all the latest wares,the fuckers
are  lamers  who  leech  from others,
shit many  of  them  don't  even have
contacts to get the wares from!! Stop
this lameness today! - Polaris



Article by : JAY/ECLIPSE
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