anti-piracy magazine ad from 1993

GloopTamer , 1 year ago

YOU WOULDN’T COPY A FLOPPY

artic , 1 year ago

Copy anyways and then downloads car

MumboAttribute7322 , 1 year ago

Something that can’t be stolen is not property. You can only copy a stream of bits not steal. You can also replicate it to infinity. A pound of gold is real property. You can definitely steal it and you can’t replicate it.

Holzkohlen , 1 year ago

Maybe it’s like Diamonds. You can absolutely make diamonds in a lab without any bloodshed and people will be like “the blood is what makes it special”. Maybe the “original” bits make it special?

Variden3301 , 1 year ago

For the record yes I would steal a car if the owners car didn’t disappear

C126 , 1 year ago

You mean make a copy of the car then.

DuckGuy , 1 year ago

Man I feel old. It was a reference to this anti-piracy ad:

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/7a26de6f-d192-44de-bc7e-076aedb1cedc.jpeg

bobs_monkey , 1 year ago

I, for one, would download the shit outta a car.

SergioFLS , 1 year ago

swapped the floppies…??? https://feddit.cl/pictrs/image/e7242d7a-1137-44f3-8bce-7a98aaf704a5.png

RespectfullyNo , 1 year ago

“When you use illegally copied software, you’re committing…DOS and Macintosh”

Don’t dead, open inside-type vibes

rm_dash_r_star , 1 year ago

Back in the day when the only copyright protection was scare tactics. Anyway looks like an ad for a software product, not actually anti-piracy propaganda. Nostalgic none the less. There was a time when all software was obtained through floppies. I sure was glad to see those go, damn things failed more often than they worked. I kept a big box of blank ones and copied everything off three times in case the first two failed.