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Low Self Esteem Issue 11
How 2 Become And Elite
Warez Trader
Part I: BBSs
Written By: Aphex Twin
July 2nd, 1996
[*] LSE NEWS [*]
First Of All, I'd Like To Say That You Can Find Issues Of Low Self Esteem
On The Following FTP Site: FTP://FTP.EText.Org/pub/Zines/LowSelfEsteem,
Thanks To The Operators Of The EText Archives For Giving This T-File
Collection A Home. You May Also Request An Issue By Writing EMail To Me At
The Following Address: PARKER_LEWIS@HOTMAIL.COM, You May Send Me Mail
Concerning Comments, Flames, Or If You Want To Write Something For Low Self
Esteem.
Well, Summer Is Finally Here, I've Been On Summer Holidays For About A Week
Now, Even Though It's Great Not Having To Go To School, It's Quite Boring, So
After Bumming Around The House Doing Nothing, I Decided To Write Some
Articles For LSE, And Since I've Got Plenty Of Time Now, Expect To See Many
Issues Coming Out In The Following Weeks, Even Though LSE Started Out By
Being A Geek Newsletter, I've Decided To Expand It, Since The Other Magazine
That I Wrote For "Forbidden Knowledge" Is Dead, You'll Be Seeing More
Articles In This T-File Collection Which Not Only Covers Geek Culture, But
Also Other Aspects, Like The Underground Scene, Society, Etc..
[*] BEFORE GETTING STARTED [*]
Ok, In This Issue, I'll Be Helping You Get Started In The Warez Trading
Scene, In This Issue I'll Cover Trading On BBS, Next Issue I'll Cover Getting
Warez On The Internet. Everything That I'm Going To Write In This Article Is
From Personal Experience, And Before You Continue Reading This Article, I
Must Advise You And Make You Aware Of The Dangers Of The Warez Scene, Which
Can Be Addictive And Your Life May Get Ruined By It (Mine Was), Read Issue 6
Of LSE To Read About My Experience In The Warez Scene, And Then Think Twice
About Entering This Scene. In This Article, I Expect You To Have Some
Computer Experience And Not Be A Complete Lamer, I'm Hoping That You Atleast
Know How To ZIP Programs, Setup Transfer Protocols And Use A Comunication
Program, If You Don't, Then I Advise You To Get More Confortable With
Computers And Software. Also Don't Expect To Get Anywhere With A Modem
Slower Then 14400 BPS.
[*] GETTING BBS NUMBERS AND NUPS [*]
Having That Done, Let's Start. OK, So You've Had Your Modem For Quite
Awhile And You've Been Calling Public Domain/Shareware BBSs Frequently But
You've Become Bored Of Shareware BBS And Shareware Programs And You Want To
Enter The World Of Warez, Well The First Thing You'll Need Is A Number Of A
Warez BBS, There Isn't Anything In The World Easier To Get, Even On PD
Boards, Numbers Of Warez BBSes Will Appear, First Of All Do A Message Scan In
All The Message Bases For The Word 'NUP', And Then Scan For Your Area Code,
So For Example If You Live In Toronto, Canada, Do A Message Scan For The
Numbers 416 And 905, Write All The Numbers You Encounter On Paper Or Capture
Them Using Your Communication Program Even If They Are Of Other Shareware
BBSes, Write Them Down. Alot Of BBSes Also Have A BBS List Command In The
Main Menu, Write Down All The Names And Numbers That Appear On The List And
Disconnect From The BBS. Now One By One, Call All The BBS Numbers That You
Obtained And Repeat The Previous Process And Increase Your BBS List.
Eventually You'll Run Into An Art Board, This Is Your Connection To The Warez
World Because The Art/ANSI Scene Is A Sub-Culture Of The Warez Scene. Keep
On Scanning The Message Bases And Capturing The BBS List, In A Couple Of Days
Your BBS List Will Already Be Huge With More Than 100 Numbers And You Sould
Have Already Obtained Some Numbers Of Warez Boards.
[*] LOGGING INTO THE BBS [*]
Ok, Now Heres What You Need To Know When You Log Into A Warez BBS, Never Use
Your Real Name, For An Alias Choose A Name That Has One Of The Following
Words In It: Dark, Evil, Shadow, Master, Chaotic, Demon, Death, Killer, Lord,
You Get The Idea, For Your Age, Type In Anything Over 18 And Under 27, Put A
Fake Address And A Fake Long Distance Phone Number, If The BBS Has A Call
Back Verifier, Screw It, Warez BBS That Have A Call-Back Verifier Are Lame
Anyways, And Sysops Tend To Be Nicer Towards Long Distance Callers. Alot Of
Warez Boards Have A NUP (New User Password), The NUP Should Have Appeared In
Your Message Captures, If You Don't Have The NUP For A BBS Don't Worry, Hold
On To The Number And Maybe Someday You Might Be Able To Obtain The NUP Or You
Might Get It Off Somebody With A Trade For Other BBS Numbers And NUPs. Some
Warez BBSes, Instead Of Having A NUP They Have A NUV (New User Voting),
In A NUV, There Are A Series Of Questions To Answer, Acronyms To Represent
And You'll Have To Write A Letter To The Sysop Or To The Voters, Some
Questions That Might Appear Are For Example, If Your In Any Group, What Are
Your Latest Games And Apps, How Many Years You've Been In The Scene, And So
Forth. For The Group/Affiliates Questions Answer By Saying That Your In A
Major Group Like TDT, TDU-Jamm Or Eclipse. There Will Probably Be Some
Acronyms That You Have To Give Their Meaning, At The End Of This File I'll
Include A List Of Acronyms And Their Meanings To Help You Out. For The
Latest Games/Apps Question, Pick Up The Latest Issue Of A Computer Mag And
Look Through It To Find Out The Latest Games & Applications And Put Them In
Your Answer. Now, Probably The Most Important Part Is The Letter You Have To
Write To The Sysop Or The Voters. Here Are Some Stuff You Can Say In Your
Letter, Tell Them That You've Been Involved In The Scene For Over 4 Years And
That You Used To Be In Famous Groups That Don't Exist Anymore Like For
Example The Humble Guys Or Fairlight. Tell Them Your Calling Long Distance
And That You Call Out Often To Other Long Distance BBSes To Get The Latest 0
Day Warez, Tell Them Also That You Trade On IRC And Have Various 0 Day FTP
Sites, This Kind Of Shit Usually Impresses Them.
Ok, So Now You've Gotten The BBS Number, You've Got Passed The NUP, And All
The Questions But Now Your Faced With A New Problem, You Must Upload A
Certain Quantity Of Warez Before You Have Full Access On The BBS. So The
Next Chapter Will Be About Getting Warez.
[*] GETTING WAREZ [*]
Ok, Now I Ask You, What Do Warez BBSes And PD BBSes Have In Common, Answer:
ANSI PACKS, Alot Of Warez BBSes Also Accept ANSI Packs As Well As H/P/A/V
(Hacking/Phreaking/Anarchy/Virus etc) Files And PCBoard/Renegade Utils, But
Since The HPAV And BBS Files Can Be Quite Small And You Need To Upload
Atleast 5MB Of Stuff, Then I Recomment ANSI Packs Because They Can Be Quite
Huge At Times, And They'll Give You More Credit. You Can Find Art Packs On
PD BBSes Or On Art Boards, And It's Even Easier If You Have Internet, Just
Do A NetSearch For The Word ACID And Download The Latest ACID Art Pack From
The ACID Web Page. Be Sure To Get Only Recent Art Packs That Are Only A Few
Months Old, Packs That Are More Then Half A Year Old Usually Get Rejected.
Ok So Suppose You Find A Recent Art Pack On A Shareware BBS But You Have No
Credits, Well Then Enter EDIT And Type In The Following Batch File:
@Echo Off
Break On
Echo Creating FILE_ID.DIZ File
Echo -= Gory Doom v1.1 =->FILE_ID.DIZ
Echo Cool New WAD For Doom II>>FILE_ID.DIZ
Echo Complete New Graphics & Sounds>>FILE_ID.DIZ
Echo It'll Make You Piss Your Pants>>FILE_ID.DIZ
Echo Creating Junk File, Press Control-Break After A Few Minutes...
:Loop
Echo WAD 454 v�8�W�*��.M4-2�N8�7�A�345345346346���>>GORYDOOM.WAD
Goto Loop
This Batch File Will Create Two Files, A File_id.DIZ File And A Junk Doom II
WAD File (PDers Love Doom WADs), Let This Batch File Run For About 10
Minutes, After Hit Control-Break, And You'll Have The FILE_ID.DIZ File As
Well As A 7 MegaByte GORYDOOM.WAD File, Move These Two Files To Their Own
Directory And Compress These Two Files With PKZIP With The Following Syntax:
PKZIP -e0 GORYDOOM, The -e0 Option Tells PKZIP Not To Compress The Files,
Whenever You Receive A New File Always Repack It With This Option, This Will
Make The Archive Bigger And You'll Get More File Points For The Upload. Ok
Then, After You Download The Recent ANSI Pack, Upload It To The Warez BBS,
Be Sure That The Warez BBS Accepts ANSI Packs, If It Doesn't Then Don't
Upload It To This BBS. Ok, Now Most Warez Boards Have A Upload:Download
Ratio, Meaning For Example If The Ratio Is 1:1 Then You Can Download A File
Of The Equal Size That You've Uploaded, So If You Upload A 1 Meg File, You
Have The Right To Download A 1 Meg File, To Not Have To Worry About This
Problem, Look For A Program Called 'Leech ZModem' And Configure It To Your
Comm Program, This Program Will Let You Download All You Want Without
Effecting Your Upload:Download Ratio, I Only Recommend Using This Protocol
Late At Night When Your Sure The Sysop Is Not Around, This Protocol Does Not
Work All The Time, But About 50% Of The Times It Will Work And You'll Be
Rolling In Warez, Another Protocol I Suggest You Install Is HS-Link And
SModem, Both These Protocols Let You Upload And Download At The Same Time,
Saving You Time.
[*] WHAT TO DOWNLOAD [*]
When You Finnaly Have Enough Credits On A BBS To Make A Download, Look
First At The File Date Of The File That You Are Downloading, Never Download
Something That Is Older Then 3 Days, Scan The File And Look At The Date Of
The NFO File Before You Download. After You Received The File, Call Other
Warez BBS And Upload The File That You Have Just Received, Upload It Quickly
Before The Program/Game Becomes Old, Most BBSes Don't Accept Any Warez That
Are Older Then 3 Days, So Always Look At The Date Before You Download, And
Always Try To Download The Latest Warez That Other BBSes Don't Have,
Eventually You'll Get Enough Credit On The Other Warez Board And You Can
Download Something That The Other BBS Doesn't Have, And Then Upload It To The
Other BBS, Always Increasing Your File Points, Something Very Important To
Remember Is, Always Download The Latest Warez, Even If It's A Program That
You'll Never Use, Download It And Upload It To The Other Warez Boards Before
It Becomes Old, If You See Something That You Want But Thats A Bit Old Then
Use Leech ZModem (At This Point You Should Always Be Using Leech ZModem).
And Don't Forget, Always Continue Scaning The Message Boards And BBS Lists
For Other Warez Boards. Pretty Soon You'll Be Uploading And Downloading All
Night And Going To Bed At 6 In The Morning (Personal Experience), Your
HardDisk Will Eventually Get Full From All The Warez, In Which Case You'll
Have To Erase Some Old Warez, Get A Tape Backup Unit Or Buy A New HardDisk,
In The Long Run You'll Probably Want To Get A 28.8K Modem To Speed Up Modem
Transfers, You Don't Really Need A Powerful Processor, Since You'll Probably
Be Too Busy Uploading And Downloading To Actually Use The Program. If You
Have Reached This Fase Then Consider Yourself A Full Pleaged Warez-o-Holic.
In The Next Chapter I'll Be Helping You To Kick The Warez Habit.
[*] KICKING THE WAREZ HABIT [*]
At This Point You'll Probably Be In Too Deep, Warez Will Probably Have
Become An Addicition For You, You Probably Don't Sleep Alot Because Your Up
All Night Leeching And Uploading Warez, Your Probably Wearing The Same
Pajamas That You've Been Wearing Three Days In A Row (Personal Experience,
People Started To Call Me Pajama Man), You Haven't Seen Sunlight In Weeks,
Your Ass Is Probably In Pain From Sitting So Long In Front Of Your Computer.
Here Are Some Negative Aspects Of The Warez Scene:
� It's A Waste Of Time
� It's Stupid Because You Never Get Around To Using The Programs You
Downloaded, Which In The Begining Was Your Objective.
� You Lose Friends Because Your Always Too Busy On The Computer.
� You Never Meet A Girl, Because There Aren't Alot Of Warez Girls.
� People Start To Call You A Dork Or A Kiddie Or A Warez Puppy.
� Your Tired And Cranky From Not Getting Enough Sleep At Night.
� You Stink From Not Taking A Shower In The Last 3 Days.
� It Distracts You From Other More Important Stuff Like School, And Thus
Your School Grades Start To Drop.
People Are So Addictated To The Warez Scene Because It Gives Them Some Kind
Of Sense Of Power When They're The First To Upload A New Ware To A BBS And
Being Accepted In The Warez Scene, They Try To Impress Others In The Warez
Scene, Except What They Don't Know Is That Everybody In The Warez Scene Is
A Total Dork Who Hides Behind Tough-Sounding Aliases Like "Dark Killer" or
"Evil Menace" or "Chaotic Child" And So Forth, Anyone Who Is Really Cool
Wouldn't Be Hanging Around In The Warez Scene, Theres A Real Life To Live,
And Sometime Or Other You Have To Eventually Crawl Out From Under The Warez
Rock And Face It, The Warez Scene Will Have Such An Impact On You That It'll
Make You Scared Of The Real World. Read Issue Six Of Low Self Esteem To Read
About My Personal Warez Experience, And Think Twice Before You Get Sucked In
The Warez World, It Really Ain't Worth It. And If Your Still Having Trouble
Leaving The Warez Scene, Look For A Text File Collection Called 'Anti-Warez
Alliance', It Helped Me Out, After Reading AWA You'll Truly See How Silly And
Worthless The Warez Scene Really Is.
[*] ACRONYMS DEFINITIONS [*]
INC - International Network of Crackers
THG - The Humble Guys
TDT - The Dream Team
FLT - Fairlight
USA - United Software Assosiation
SKN - Skillion
RZR - Razor 1911
TRSI - Tristar Red Sector Inc.
YAM - Youngsters Against McAfee
ACiD - Ansi Creators In Demand
ICE - Insane Creators Enterprise
DARK - Digital Artists Of the Rare Kind
PBX - Private Branch EXchange
EXTENDERS - They extend your area code so you can call for free
PHREAKING - Telecomunications Theft
ANARCHY - Law-Less Order (No Order, No Laws)
HACKING - Breaking into places illegally
PHRACK - Phreaking and Hacking
P/H/A/C - Phreaking/Hacking/Anarchy/Carding or Cracking
CARDING - Credit Card Theft
ANE - Anarchy 'N' Explosives
ANI - Automatic Number Identification
ANSI - American National Standards Institute
AOA - Anarchists of America
AOT - Art of Technology
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
AWA - Anti-Warez Association/Alliance
BCP - Black Circle Productions
BOW - Brotherhood Of Warez
CDC - Cult of the Dead Cat/Cow
CERT - Computer Emergency Response Team
CIA - Creators Of Intense Art
CUD - Computer Underground Digest
DNA - Death N' Anarchy/Digital News Association
DOA - Dead On Arrival/Distributors of Anarchy
DOD - Drink Or Die
DOM - Dominators
ECL - Eclipse
FC - Future Crew
FUCK - Forgive Us Crazy Kids/Fucked Up College Kids
HYB - Hybrid
LOD/H - Legion of Doom/Hackers
LOL - Legion of Lucifer
MoD - Master's of Destruction/Disaster/Deception
PAIN - Pirating Artistically Intrepid Newsmongers
PIL - Pirates In Legion/Pilfreed
PuD - Pizza Underground Digest
PWA - Pirates With Attitudes
RISC - Rise In Superior Couriering
SCAM - Society Of Criminals, Anarchists, And Misfits
SKISM - Smart Kids Into Sick Methods
SNC - Sonic
SPA - Software Publishers Association
$ynd - The $yndicate
TPC - The Phoney Coders
TWA - The Warez Alliance
TWL - Twilight
UCF - United Cracking Force
VANDALS - Very Agressive Nastee Dudez Against Lame Shit (Had To Add It :))
WASP - Warriors Against Software Protection
I'm To Lazy To Write More, Anyways You'll Gain More Knowledge Once Your
Fimiliar With The Scene.
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