anti-piracy magazine ad from 1993

SergioFLS, 11 months ago

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

ReepusVanguard, 11 months ago

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

masquenox, 11 months ago

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

jursed, 11 months ago

man its real interesting to see vintage stuff like this

bionicjoey, 11 months ago (edited 11 months 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

ram, 11 months ago

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

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA, 11 months ago

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

foreverandaday, 11 months ago

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

Uriel238, 11 months ago (edited 11 months 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

GloopTamer, 11 months ago

YOU WOULDN’T COPY A FLOPPY

interolivary, 11 months ago

YES I WOULD

artic, 11 months ago

Copy anyways and then downloads car

cupcakezealot, 11 months ago

no carmen sandiego no oregon trail

kryostar, 11 months ago

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

empireOfLove, 11 months ago

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.

sweBers, 11 months ago

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

Holzkohlen, 11 months ago

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

sweBers, 11 months ago

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

cakeistheanswer, 11 months ago

Ahh always nice to revisit my first dose of propaganda.

I would have downloaded a car if I could have.

Variden3301, 11 months ago

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

C126, 11 months ago

You mean make a copy of the car then.

DuckGuy, 11 months 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, 11 months ago

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

ProcurementCat, 11 months ago

I'm not very well versed in Star Trek lore, but didn't humanity basically become peaceful by inventing the replicator, which can exactly do this?

Now imagine being against this development.

miles, 11 months ago

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