don’t copy that floppy!
For the record yes I would steal a car if the owners car didn’t disappear
You mean make a copy of the car then.
Pretty sure they meant theft of the theoretical car that might have been sold to you if you could afford it.
/s
Man I feel old. It was a reference to this anti-piracy ad:
I, for one, would download the shit outta a car.
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I also don’t know Star Trek lore but it is basically the answer used in The Orville (“matter synthesis”), which I do know is a love letter to Star Trek in general
Those are the worst excuses. “Don’t do that thing or we will ruin your life” like. That isn’t a reason not to do something, you are just monsters.
In my state we have signs that say “LITTER AND IT WILL HURT”.
I loath littering but those signs always make me chuckle.
“When you use illegally copied software, you’re committing…DOS and Macintosh”
Don’t dead, open inside-type vibes
YOU WOULDN’T COPY A FLOPPY
Copy anyways and then downloads car
Downloads a fruit cup while at it
YES I WOULD
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.
I still use floppies. They may be gone, but people still use them.
And I thought I was a holdout, didn’t remove the floppy drives from my home built desktop computers until like 2005.
Government still uses them in sensitive situations “for security” (and not having to beg for funding only to risk the upgrade failing and taking down some secret, billion-dollar operation) too.
So does Chuck e Cheese, or did recently?
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/chuck-e-cheese-animatronic-floppy-disks
For what, if I may ask?
I have a floppy case that I keep my old PS 1+2 and GC memory cards in, but that’s about as much use as I’ve got for the whole thing at this point, so I’m super curious.
Lmao the notion that you would pay so much more for the fine than the software is worth.
“It’s a real bargain when you consider what some people pay” is a great slogan for asteroid insurance
Meanwhile inside Microsoft: I’ll just copy this Xerox GUI aannndddd … Windows!
Lol, good ol’ Gates Innovation™
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.
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?
with that price tag, I’m surprised more people aren’t copying that floppy.
“Buy my $80 course to learn how you can waste even more money!”
Paying $80 to ensure people paid for other things? This is silly.
Ahh always nice to revisit my first dose of propaganda.
I would have downloaded a car if I could have.
Their attempts to pretend software copying is anything serious was as hilarious in '93 as it is today.
Lol that’s rather anti copyright laws if anything.
I think companies just started outsourcing to contract workers who can’t afford legitimate software, so that when they sue the guy for piracy, he’s just poor. His life may be ruined by the suit, but the company is fine.
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