How much pirated Amiga software did you have?

[zurt]

Hi, I actually have more than 3000 DD disks of pirated Amiga stuff (most of them totally unusable due to their age).

I belonged to a "Amiga pirate" club here in my city, this club worked in a "token ring"-basis. The "token" was about 50-70 diskettes per month. "Club" members only knew the existence of the previous and next member. The "club" consisted of an undetermined number of people who paid a quote to the previous member, and in exchange this member gave you "the token". Once you had copied "the token" you can pass it on to the next member.

One of the members (I did not know him personally) were the responsible of establishing business with the "pirate providers" who were totally unknown for the members of the "club".

So I've got a bunch of disks. I registered several software (Amiga E, Spot, MailManager, Trapdoor(?), MakeCD, etc.) Never bought a boxed Amiga program apart from Amithlon, PageStream and AmigaOS3.5, 3.9, 4.

[zurt]

I remember that a shop near my school getting raided and prosecuted because they sold copied disks for 50p a disk and had thousands.

I also remember when I was visiting Glasgow in Aug, 1995 a flea market called The Barras at which there was a lot of people selling Amiga pirated software. I bought there WordWorth 5, Directory Opus 5, and several more software.

I liked Glasgow a lot in an Amigan way: It was very nice to find such as beautiful scene (flea market full of A500's running X-Copy ) as well as a Virgin Store with Amigas running Scala IC and selling Amiga mice!