Interview taken from Video News # 42 (February 1987) p.. 10
INTERVIEW WITH A PIRATE
We all know what it means to be a "pirate" software, and through the various acronyms (found in the screens of the "hard-game") we know the existence of these "mysterious beings" . But how many of you know why you become a pirate, as "works" and what it feels like to be considered "illegal"? Let's find out in this interview, carried out with the help of Joseph Porretti still valid.
15 Hours: I just talked by telephone with DNS, 22, a member of the now famous 2703 Gr He seemed calm, confident and happy to lend itself to an interview that should help us discover all its secrets ( has issued a last month in a French magazine). Where to meet? His proposal does not make me excited, but a bar in the center is a place as another (but who pays for the drink?).
18 Hours: I am sitting at a table for about five minutes, and still do not see anyone. Ah, here it is! Greetings, introductions, and after a deliberate joke about "why are not you wearing a black hood on his head," we begin our interview, VG news challenge a pirate!
LM: How did you become a pirate and why?
DNS: To hobby ... and to gain!
LM: And how much you earn?
DNS: I'm not complaining. It 's like having a fixed salary.
LM: But you do not feel "outlaw"?
DNS: No, because there is no law.
LM: But at your age not aspire to something more constructive?
DNS: But we are mad? With what you earn!
LM: Why not use your abilities to plan?
DNS: Perché ci vuole troppo tempo e si guadagna di meno.
LM: Visto che per te è solo una questione di soldi, se ti offrissero la stessa cifra per programmare?
DNS: Non credo, perché è più difficile, e poi, con i pirati in circolazione!!
LM: Cos'è per te un videogioco?
DNS: Un buon cinquantamila! (ride!)
LM: Ma lo trovi il tempo per giocare?
DNS: Molto raramente. E mi dispiace.
LM: A che cosa è dovuta la tua sigla?
DNS: initial of my name and that of my partner, followed by soft.
LM: So there you have to say how many members there are in your "organization."
DNS: Well, besides the two of us are members of other groups with whom we have frequent contact.
LM: But do not you compete?
DNS: course, but it is never made with malice.
LM: I thought you'd responded that respects the work of others. Go ahead. What do you use and how long it takes to unprotect a program?
DNS: Typically you use multiple monitors or cartridges on the market, the time varies between twenty and thirty minutes.
LM: If you were to stop, how do you defend?
DNS: Do not ask me this possibility, and then would be a waste of time for everyone, is not it?
LM: Who resell the software to copy?
DNS: usually individuals, but we have contacts with distributors and stores.
LM: And I think it is useless to ask you to name names! How did you get the programs?
DNS: directly from England. It 'the only valid system.
LM: In case of approval of any copyright law, speak out against your friends for money, since you seem quite fair market?
DNS: I should point out that video games are for me a job (and hence gain) but never get that far.
LM: Let me know what you think of -cassette programs that invade newsstands.
DNS: I can not help but talk about it too, as are the main part of our work!
LM: how to solve the problem of copied software?
DNS: One method would be: it would suffice for the tapes cost less, so as to remove those from the pirates profit margins that drive them to work.
LM: So Mastertronic's attempts to import original price no longer prohibitive, can be considered valid?
DNS: Of course, the initiative is successful, but from what I've seen so far is at the expense of quality. When allowed to offer programs such as World Games, Championship Wrestling and others at prices lower than 5000 pounds, then we can talk it over.
LM: last question: read the interview on the news pages VG?
DNS: Definitely . Why not send me a copy?
LM: Willingly, but where?
DNS: You're right. Give me your address.
LM: And why do not you give me yours?
DNS: Look, it does not say "merry"! (Points to his forehead and laughs like crazy).
LM: Forget it. Through the interview then!
DNS: imagine. Hello guys. See you soon. (He gets up and walks away).
GP: We have not forgotten anything?
LM: not think so, why?
GP: Why we should pay us the bill! (Laughter). Thanks
DNS!
Luca Mantegazza
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