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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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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!”
Lol that’s rather anti copyright laws if anything.
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.
https://www.npr.org/2022/09/22/1124441151/some-industries-still-use-floppy-disks-this-is-one-of-the-only-places-to-buy-the
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.
And I just can’t get that rap song “Don’t copy that floppy” out of my head after seeing this xD
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
That makes me want to pirate, jesus thats a huge price for a flippin floppy disk.
YOU WOULDN’T COPY A FLOPPY
YES I WOULD
Copy anyways and then downloads car
Downloads a fruit cup while at it
Ahh always nice to revisit my first dose of propaganda.
I would have downloaded a car if I could have.
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
For those unfamiliar with this campaign - note the SPA logo with the “Don’t copy that floppy” slogan in the middle of the page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Copy_That_Floppy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI
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?
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…
For the record yes I would steal a car if the owners car didn’t disappear
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.
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
You mean make a copy of the car then.
Man I feel old. It was a reference to this anti-piracy ad:
Then I’ll steal a policeman’s helmet and take a shit in it.
https://youtu.be/ALZZx1xmAzg
I, for one, would download the shit outta a car.
I had a dream once that I could download a sandwich. I kept downloading different delicious sandwiches on Limewire until one of them gave me a virus.
That being said I would still definitely download a sandwich.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
I play Assetto Corsa. I have downloaded 300GB worth of cars, and I’ll do it again.
Pretty sure they meant theft of the theoretical car that might have been sold to you if you could afford it.
/s