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don't copy that floppy!

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[–] DubiousInterests@lemmy.fmhy.ml 52 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] darknavi@vlemmy.net 7 points 2 years ago

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

I loath littering but those signs always make me chuckle.

[–] GloopTamer@discuss.online 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

YOU WOULDN’T COPY A FLOPPY

[–] artic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Copy anyways and then downloads car

[–] AGreatUsernameChoice@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Downloads a fruit cup while at it

[–] interolivary 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] interolivary 1 points 2 years ago

testing, please ignore

[–] MumboAttribute7322@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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@feddit.de 8 points 2 years 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?

[–] rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 29 points 2 years 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.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] NeonPayload@infosec.pub 18 points 2 years ago

with that price tag, I'm surprised more people aren't copying that floppy.

[–] ram@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago

Paying $80 to ensure people paid for other things? This is silly.

[–] cakeistheanswer@lemmy.fmhy.ml 17 points 2 years ago

Ahh always nice to revisit my first dose of propaganda.

I would have downloaded a car if I could have.

[–] foreverandaday@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago

"Buy my $80 course to learn how you can waste even more money!"

[–] madmaurice@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 years ago

Lol that's rather anti copyright laws if anything.

[–] Uriel238@lemmy.fmhy.ml 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 fires 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.

[–] sweBers@lemmy.fmhy.ml 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

All my homies hate proprietary codecs. Opus and ogg vorbis go brrrr

[–] sweBers@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Don't forget flac, which was playable on many devices.

[–] felixculpa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago

Sounds like a threat, like they're saying, 'If you do this, we're gonna make you cough up that amount, so better steer clear, dude.'

[–] jursed 6 points 2 years ago

man its real interesting to see vintage stuff like this

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago

no carmen sandiego no oregon trail

[–] kryostar 5 points 2 years ago

"When you are illegally copying software you are committing DOS and Macintosh™"

[–] kikuchiyo@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

And I just can't get that rap song "Don't copy that floppy" out of my head after seeing this xD

[–] renrenPDX@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago

0.05~0.10 for bulk floppy purchases and a screechy 14.4 modem, I remember those days fondly. Google says 100k fine in 1993 is equivalent to 210k in 2023. Still ridiculous.

[–] SergioFLS@feddit.cl 3 points 2 years ago

swapped the floppies...???

That makes me want to pirate, jesus thats a huge price for a flippin floppy disk.

[–] Tigwyk@lemmy.vrchat-dev.tech 1 points 2 years ago

Wild, OP did you see this posted on bluesky? I think I saw it there from the archive team guy.

...Hoping to cross paths with fellow blooskis on lemmy...

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