Fairlight Responds to Bust

[Big Booger]

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: Supplied by: FAiRLiGHT : : Release Date: 05/15/04 :
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Legends never die!

You all read the news - Operation Fastlink struck hard to the heart of the
scene and hit the FairLight ISO section, but mind that the demo activities
on the PC and C64 are still naturally untouched, as there is nothing to
complain about from a legal point of view on what they are doing.

So, let me underline it for you again: FairLight's ISO section is lethally
wounded, but the group as such is still alive and kicking!
FairLight is built stronger to last longer.

FairLight is bigger than one and even all of the sections.
FairLight is and you can rely on the fact that FairLight will continue to be!

Respects to the Fastlink people for finding the core of the scene, which is
not an easy thing to do.
They are doing their job and we're not whining! In war, people take bullets
- we are aware of this!
If you can't stand the sight of body bags, then stand back and let the
real men do the work for you.

We attack, adapt, improvise and survive!

We are FairLight and will continue to be FairLight.

FairLight IS the delight of ETERNAL might!


/Bacchus on Behalf of the FairLight council



PS:

Reading up on the izonews.com is very distressing.
People tend to think that there will always be another cracker and that
getting the games early is star quality here. It's not!

Protections of today are ones that *very* few can penetrate and those who do,
should be worthy the respect. Downloading them fast is just a matter of a
fast line in combination to access to a site.
Skills stay, whereas the access can be revokes instantly!

So admire the striker of the ruling football team and don't not feel proud
about being the beer bellied lardass, who managed to get a ticket to watch
unless you don't stand amongst the supporters, singing praise.
You have no idea of what it's like to play and what it takes to excel!

We do it for the thrill, joy and the fans, but don't take us for granted
without showing justified respect.

More On FairLight

FairLight as a group enjoyed it's 17th birthday in April 2004 and is amongst
the oldest on the scene, and possibly the only one this old having a unbroken
line of reign on several platforms since it's birth.
Our council has a common scene experience exceeding 50 years.

We've proven the group on the Commodore 64, the Amiga, Super Nintendo and
the PC, with a modular approach to forming the group.

Current vivid activities still includes demo production on the PC and
one the Commodore 64.

/Team FairLight
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Took out all the ascii art. If you want to see it in it's untouched form take a look at the attachment.

It would seem that they hit only a certain section of Fairlight and that the release group is composed of more than just the part that got taken down. I surely hope that for their sake they re-evaluate their security, and consider their decisions as the way it sounds, you'd think they thought this was like a game of hide and go seek.

[cash_site]

this was like a game of hide and go seek.

It was s*d to see this happen to highly regarded and respected group of talented ppl. Ok, they were crackers, but they were good. Wouldnt you want to be respected if you were the best lollypop lady in town!! I know I am :p

It would be interesting to see how the Cops found them and infiltrated their group?!

I wonder who is next... deviance??

[Big Booger]

I'd say this is a wake up call to most groups to either ship up or shape out if you are going to remain in that scene..

:D

[cash_site]

to either ship up or shape out Isnt it Shape Up and Ship out??

But I think more groups will be very careful in future, and will prolly review current activities ;)

[Big Booger]

Isnt it Shape Up and Ship out??

But I think more groups will be very careful in future, and will prolly review current activities ;)

You should know me by now, a nonconformist through and through.
:D

I'd say whatever they do, they need to be more strict with who they let in... I mean doing this as a non-profit "I am 733t" sort of thing is one thing, but taking this to a piracy, selling it for a profit is something else entirely...

[cash_site]

You should know me by now, a nonconformist through and through.
:D

I'd say whatever they do, they need to be more strict with who they let in... I mean doing this as a non-profit "I am 733t" sort of thing is one thing, but taking this to a piracy, selling it for a profit is something else entirely...

Agreed, selling for profit is not too good... I didnt know they were cracking for profits :(

[infinite]

Shape up our screech out.

=)


flt forever

[z3n]

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Making money out of cracking is pointless and greedy.
They might as well get a job with a ligitimate software company or start to develop their own software/games. It would probably change their perspective on cracking if they did.

Cracking should always be about testing and improving softwares security, while making resources available to those who otherwise cannot afford it. I know game developers who understand and respect the symbionce between profit margins and warez. Especially with the online muliplayer functionality taking the stage as it has.
It's important to remember the Counter-Strike was a free mod (I played the initial beta release within hours of its upload.) then the updates, all free.
I know personally about 30 people who ran down the shops to buy Half Life when there were pirate copies available for free.
How many copies of Half life do you think Sierra/Valve sold thanks to Counter-Strike. My argument is not that modders are crackers but there were lots of crackersand crack copies using HalfLife DM waiting for the CS mod- and when it came, it went through the roof.

If its popular, people will use the convienience factor to go down to the shops and get it. I have seen countless good games with great multiplayer server restricted security, go dusty on the shelves because the servers were desolate and empty.

A good friend of mine bought a game (I won't mention the title) on it's anticipated release, only to be one of 4 players on 30 servers at any given time of day. He sold it two weeks later at a pawnbrokers so as not to completely lose all his money on it.
It had excellent server side security, so good you had to buy the game, and if you did - it was empty.

Anyways, these are just my personal beliefs and experience. Just ambling away.

It's a fine moral line, but it's not the thinest one we walk.

[infinite]

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They might as well get a job with a ligitimate software company or start to develop their own software/games.

And after that they may proceed to go grab some lunch or whatever. These people are usually not designers; I don't see any connection here.

Seriously though, as you yourself point out, lots of people pay for their games because they're either computer illiterate or think it's most convenient. Word of mouth from people owning pirate copies is important to build up hype behind a software title. I can see how the games and software developers may think of it as rude, but they shouldn't be whining the way they are today.

And without having delved into any numbers, my guess is that international police operations probably cost a lot of money that could have been used to track down real criminals instead. It pisses me off that so much of peoples taxmoney everywhere is commited purely to corporate interests like these.

And besides, fairlight gives me my kicks. :) I haven't downloaded many of their releases in the past years but I've grown up with them and knowing that they're there kind of gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling. Like Santa Claus.

Fairlight is the Delight of Eternal Might!