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From: PETERS@RODNEY.enet.dec.com (Don Peters, CTC2-1, DTN 287-3153  12-Feb-1990 1222)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Club pirating orgies
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Date: 12 Feb 90 19:46:29 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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In article <28201@brunix.UUCP>, rjd@cs.brown.edu (Rob Demillo) writes:
> 
> The reason I can say this is because I have attended ST User Group
> meetings in three different communities. In all three cases, the
> scene is entirely the same: a brief meeting is held, some software
> is demoed, then what can only be described as an orgy of software
> piracy begins. Its mallicious, its organized, and its massive.

I helped found the Nashua Area ST User Society (NASTUS) several years ago
and have been its president for the past year. Prior to that I was the
club software librarian. So I can say with authority that our club has
NEVER condoned or engaged in this sort of activity. In fact, when we
officers heard a rumor of a local BBS offering pirated ST software, we
included a note in our newsletter saying we are strongly against
pirating.

I also attend the Nashoba Valley ST User Society (NAVaUS), and was their
librarian for a year. Same thing there. In fact, at one time a member
pointed out that I had inadvertantly included a commercial
telecommunications program in our library. After verifying that what he
said was true, I removed it from the library.

Going further, I previously attended meetings of the ST subgroup of the
Boston Computer Society, knew the librarian, and swapped public domain
disks with him. Neither he nor the members dealt with any pirate software
that I was aware of.

So while I can't speak for clubs I haven't attended, all three ST clubs
I've associated with in the past five years have in no way even come
close to software pirating orgies.

     Don Peters
     NASTUS President
     (508)-250-3153