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- PIRACY - a subject that affects us all.....
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- O.K so piracy is a subject that is covered virtually all the time
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- by the Amiga magazines,but it is a subject that needs sorting out,
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- and QUICK.
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- Here are two short stories that have NO relation to each other at all
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- at first, but after reading them I think you will see how piracy will
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- affect the Amiga in years to come.
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- The stories have been set out as though they are from a newspaper.....
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- WHITEPOOL FUN SANDS CLOSES DOWN 24th September 1997
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- The worlds largest Theme park has closed down today with the loss of
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- 2 Million jobs.
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- WHITEPOOL FUN SANDS was Whitepools main tourist attraction.
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- The reason for it closing down has been disclosed for the very first time,
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- here is that story.
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- When Whitepool Fun Sands opened it contained just one ride, but throughout
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- the years it has expanded to well over 10 Thousand new rides!
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- But after the Fun Sands decided that you would pay to get in instead of
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- paying for a go on a ride things started to go down hill.
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- It was found out that there was a young man standing at the back entrance
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- to the Fun Sands and letting people in for free. Therefore, the Fun Sands
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- were no longer making any money. The young man was clever though, he
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- could'nt be stoped because he was very secretive about what he was doing
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- and did'nt tell any of his friends.
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- So he could just stand at the back entrance to the Fun Sands and advise
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- people that they could use his entrance and be admitted for free!
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- The tourists liked this and soon the Fun Sands would be full, but
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- nobody had paid to get in. So the Fun Sands Staff started to be paid
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- off, They could not be paid so they had to go, and a fun park with NO
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- staff is useless as you could not use the rides,so the tourists decided
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- to leave.
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- One tourist said "We've been coming here for the last 10 years,we've never
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- paid to get in but that was a good thing, but now theres nobody working
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- there, so we cant use the rides."
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- The case continues...
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- PIRACY ON THE AMIGA. 24th September 1997
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- It started out around the year of 1985. Commodore have just released
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- what looks like it could become the greatest home computer of all time,
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- The AMIGA!
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- The Amiga sells like mad, nearly every home has one. So software starts
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- to be developed at a very fast rate, there are literally HUNDREDS of
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- software houses trying to release games for the new AMIGA.
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- Then in a house not too far away, a young man has an idea, would'nt it
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- be good if I could copy these great software titles and then sell or
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- even just give them to all my friends, and then they can give them to
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- their friends and so on!
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- So this young man gets together with some of his friends and they start
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- to "crack" the games, and they do it!
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- So they quickly copy as many as they can,and give them to loads of people.
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- Soon the software companies here about this,and they are getting mad.
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- So mad infact that slowly the software companies decide to develop for
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- the "console toys" and scrap Amiga games.
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- Some of the software companies go bust, this means that instead of
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- Hundreds of software houses developing games for the Amiga,there are
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- only a few left!
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- This gets back to Commodore, and they decide that the Amiga is no longer
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- any use for anyone, so they STOP making them!!!!!
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- The machine that is owned by millions is now USELESS, there are now
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- NO software houses writing games or utilities.
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- THE AMIGA IS DEAD
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- Well, it could, or even, WILL happen.
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- The two stories have nothing in common accept a type of "PIRACY" is
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- forcing two businesses to close down.
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- One is the fictional "WHITEPOOL FUN SANDS" but the other is
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- the very real COMMODORE AMIGA.
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- Do you wan't to see the machine that you have just paid nearly £300.00
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- for just disappear
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- I KNOW I DON'T.
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- If YOU know ANYONE that has a collection of PIRATE games, or you
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- are offered any. Contact F.A.S.T
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- (The Federation Against Software Theft) NOW!
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