don’t copy that floppy!

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    Their attempts to pretend software copying is anything serious was as hilarious in '93 as it is today.

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    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

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    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.

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      In my state we have signs that say “LITTER AND IT WILL HURT”.

      I loath littering but those signs always make me chuckle.

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    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.

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        And I thought I was a holdout, didn’t remove the floppy drives from my home built desktop computers until like 2005.

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          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.

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

    Don’t dead, open inside-type vibes

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    I would fucking too download a car if I could get the godsdamned thing to work.

    Policemen stopped wearing helmets around here decades ago. But I’d shit in one anyways

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    The ad makes more sense if you actually read it. They’re talking about enterprise software being used for business where correct licensing and license fees is a VERY VERY BIG legal deal and those level of fines are not just scare tactics. And this was software meant for IT crews to maintain legal compliance and crack down on inter-office copy sharing.

    Corporations got cash up the wazoo, they can and always should pay for their licenses. Employees (or managers) pirating shit is just a grift in the business world.

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      That was true until the early 00s when people were getting destroyed in court for mp3 sharing.

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    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.

    Edit: Fixed sentence cohesion

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    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.

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      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?