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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Noisetracker 2.0???
Message-ID: <3185@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 20 Sep 90 15:08:21 GMT
References: <58200@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <4NPgP6w163w@valnet>
Organization: Corpane Industries Inc., Louisville, KY
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joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg) writes:

>NOISETRACKER IS PIRATED! If the SDA knows you have it, then your Amiga 
>will go bye=bye. A better choice would be MED on FF348.
>er 349.

You know, the noisetracker story keeps changing every time I see it. I 
got kind of fed up reading shit like the quote above, so I went looking
around BBS's to find noisetracker myself. I grabbed noisetracker 1.0 and
read thru the doc file. As far as I can see the authors of noisetracker 
go to some lengths to claim that they ARE LEGAL!! Why would they bother
if they pirated it? Most pirates are proud of the fact and advertize it.

Here is an excerpt from the noisetracker 1.0 docs. I deleted most of it
because it is not relevant to the discussion (instructions for the program
and the like) Prove to me that it's commercial and I will delete it and
tell the BBS sysop where I got it from to delete it also.

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- NoiseTracker V1.0 - An improved version of MnemoTroN's Soundtracker V2.3 -
-   Made by Mahoney & Kaktus - Northstar & Silents in July - August 1989   -
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[instructions deleted]

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-                Comments.              -
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[some comments not relative to this issue deleted]

WE ARE LEGAL!!!! Fuck the police who keeps on checking our mail, just because
we were on Fairlights memberlist and they happened to get that when they
infiltrated an illegal Visa-card user. (Fairlight member, of course)

Message to Black Shadow (Fairlight): Sorry, but we got a better position as
headers of the NorthStar programming crew. Atom will go to the States soon.
We ARE NorthStar. NOT members of Fairlight. 

(and all you lamers who keep on calling us to ask what group we're in, 
here you got the answer!)

Special thanks to Glue Master, Zymox, Foetus, Jazze, Godbrain, Spexhane,
Starfire, Exolon, Celebrandbil, Ron & Sal/MegaKlopparna, Jessi, Jenny S.
and all those guys who made the Soundtracker before me.

                  Any problems? Call Germany 110.

Signed - Mahoney & Kaktus/HallonSoft 1989                Have a nice night!

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