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Re: Beware! Beware!
« on: May 12, 2010, 03:56:37 AM »
The best things in life are free...

The user's group I belonged to had disk copying parties...
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Re: How much pirated Amiga software did you have?
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2010, 08:43:36 PM »
Exactly, the 15 Year old with the 60K songs isn't likely to buy or even listen to more than a small number of them.  Not every copy would have been a sale.  Back in the day most of the games were cr@p, and the copied disks got tossed into a storage box somewhere until time finally took it's toll on them.

I know people with hundreds of non-purchased apps on their iPhones and they really only use two or three of them.  They just like the idea of them being there.
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Re: How much pirated Amiga software did you have?
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2010, 03:12:55 PM »
Back in the good old days getting software used to be a great social occasion, you'd have these huge users group meetings where you just copied disks and while all that was going on they're be this party going on and you really got to meet your fellow users.  Nowadays it's just torrent this, torrent that and you never get to meet others.  Maybe it's time for a facebook group...
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