INTERVIEW with BLITZ /ORIGIN/
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 credit: NWR
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[NWR] For those of our readers who don't know who you are, please state your full nick 
and current and past affils?

[Blitz] Blitzkrieg Razor 1911 1992-94, Risc 1994, Origin 1998-99, DMS '99, DVNISO.


[NWR] Well as we all know, games are your area of interest. So let's begin by discussing 
how Origin came about originally?

[Blitz    ] Frankly, I don't know the whole history of Origin... I got back into the 
scene after cable came into my area. I ran into butcher who I knew from Razor, and we 
talked about me joining DVNISO. I really didn't have much interest in origin until The 
Renegade Chemist joined. Once TRC joined Origin, I decided it was time to come back to 
the scene and see if we could have a little fun


[NWR] Origin has had it's ups and downs, and more recently has become recognized as a 
competing force in today's gaming scene, where do you see Origin going in the coming 
months?


[Blitz] Origin still has weaknesses in several areas, but the core team is strong. 
We obvoiusly have two very strong primary suppliers, but our supplying from other 
regions can and must improve for us to take it to the next level.


[NWR] With some of the more prominent names in Origin being former Razor members, and 
you yourself being a Razor alumnus, what are your thoughts on the current state of 
Razor?


[Blitz] Okay, Razor... well Razor today is not the Razor I remember, it's been a 
long time. People come and go, and as RZR leadership like to say, most of the scene 
has passed through their ranks at one time or another. the last couple of months have 
been pretty dreary for them, but they have shown a few signs of life lately, and I 
don't have any hard feelings towards the group as a whole.


[NWR] Being involved in the games scene, what are your thoughts on the PDM/CLS bet 
that is going on between Sun D and Chinablue?


[Blitz] I think it's stupid


[NWR] OGN announced a new WHQ yesterday, 120 gigs and in the US. What are the other 
affils of the site and what made you decide to make it OGN WHQ?


[Blitz] Origin has always wanted a WHQ in the United States, but only one current 
site met the high standard set by our last WHQ. Unfortunately that site was already 
in a group, and therefore unavailable, Since there were no other sites in the USA 
with the bandwidth and storage space we require from our flagship site, the only 
option was to build a site from the ground up.


[NWR] You listed that you are in DMS, and you trade only to US sites, are you trying 
to bring back the former US site glory or just doing it for fun?


[Blitz] I am incapable of reviving the USA scene by myself, but apart from leeching 
from European sites, I don't trade there. I don't really consider myself a courier. 
I don't have the patience for it, so I do it for fun when the mood suits me. It was 
my start in the scene way back, however and I think I can still do it pretty well 
when it strikes my fancy.


[NWR] Now that you have been trading a little more regularly, what are your thoughts 
on the current trading scene and the way some couriers behave in todays' scene?


[Blitz] I don't like how some couriers try to dictate to their release groups 
how to operate. It seems that more and more the releases today are geared towards 
couriers and not end users. The first to do this was probably the Grand Bitch of 
Warez, Killerette. She used to run High Voltage, and she was notorious for releasing 
huge piles of dung for the sole purpose of boosting her uploads on Unlawful and Mirage. 
In a sense, she was the first prewhore. The name suits her. I don't tolerate couriers 
who treat Origin as a source of pre's. All my guys are team-oriented. Unfortunately 
that is not the same in all groups, more on the utils side of course. I don't see it 
changing though, so all I can do is keep it out of Origin.


[NWR] Origin's site list consists more of large disk space sites and archiving/iso 
sites rather than big name super fast 0day sites, what motivates you to pick the 
sites that you do and what is the requirement to be an Origin site?


[Blitz] I see no use for race sites in a release group. The only reason Origin 
has sites is to leech. That is their sole purpose. If we didn't need leech we wouldn't 
have sites. In the old days a WHQ was where the group communicated through message 
bases. These days, sites are totally file-oriented. We have one site that was taken 
into the group soley on the basis of it's speed and that is Falsehood. That is our 
courier HQ, and it was brought in for the couriers. The couriers wanted a fast site, 
so they got one. The other members of the group couldn't care less how fast the site 
is, they just want their leech. As for joining origin, there is only one sure way to 
get a site, and that is to be a participating member of the group.


[NWR] You mentioned Killerette as the grand bitch of warez, and I vaguely remember 
her, but many of our readers would say that Chinablue is today's grand bitch in 
warez, what are your thoughts on Chinablue and her methods, if any?


[Blitz] I don't know China Blue very well. Her methods seem to motivate. As for 
her motivation in giving away that kind of hardware, I can only guess. She does not 
seem like the kind of person I would want to get to know better, but I have no ill 
will towards her other than her choice of group.


[NWR] Since the china/sund bet came about, Class and PDM have really become active, 
but they seem to be dropping their quality and care in releasing. Alot of fixes, 
the CIH in Blood 2, etc. How do you feel about this lack of care just to gain quantity?


[Blitz] I feel it's contagious. I know in Origin we have lost on releases because 
we were taking more time to test the game and ensure it was working properly. I'm 
sure other groups have encountered the same thing, and I imagine that quality control 
has dropped. We have had far too many fixes lately, and obviously the other groups 
have as well.
Until the leaders of the scene step forward and start punishing games with fixes more 
severely, this trend will continue. At some point we will hit rock bottom and we will 
be forced to do something about it. As for when this time will come, I can only guess.


[NWR] You mentioned the only bad thing about china was her choice of group, are you 
not a big fan of Class?


[Blitz] I don't like Class. I like some of their members like Prozac, but as a 
whole I don't like the institution. Things like the Corsairs release where they 
blatantly were caught cheating...
Refusing to fix their own releases, like Blood 2 and Warzone. These things point to 
a lack of ethics about the scene and a complete disregard for the end user. Attitudes 
like that point to a group of people not in it for fun, but for other motivations.


[NWR] What of the big man? Skill? Any feelings on him? There's been rumors of his 
underhanded methods.


[Blitz] I've only spoken to Skill on one occasion and he was civil to me. Any 
other comments I would have would be speculation.


[NWR] A week or so ago, Glen was caught stealing the OGN pre out of the TT pre dir, 
and what followed was TT being removed from OGN and then coming back, what was the 
whole story there and how do you feel about Glen?


[Blitz] Well... Glen.
What is there to say? He stole from us, and he cheated the couriers.
As for titty Twister, their actions were swift and appropriate. They banned glen 
from the site, and that was sufficient for me to see that they were serious about 
an Origin affiliation.
Titty Twister had approached me on NUMEROUS occasions in the past and had been turned 
down before. Their persistence and openess to our concepts were the reason they were 
brought in, and I saw no reason to take that away because Glen is a cheater and thief.
The issue is dead as far as I'm concerned.


[NWR] ok, well I'd like to thank you for taking the time to talk to us and I know you 
have that big date over at Celebrities, grin, so would you like to say any final 
thoughts or toss out some greets?


[Blitz] Just a few greets
Greets go out to - ][ce, cypher, The Renegade Chemist, butcher, drizzt, prozac, toast, 
Fertile, Mrpumpkin, wishmaster, and Xtase And the biggest one of all to Big Boss, who 
sysoped the best site in the history of the scene, Mirage