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 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
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.
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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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
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.
Meanwhile inside Microsoft: I’ll just copy this Xerox GUI aannndddd … Windows!
Lol, good ol’ Gates Innovation™
no carmen sandiego no oregon trail
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.
Man I feel old. It was a reference to this anti-piracy ad:
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.
Then I’ll steal a policeman’s helmet and take a shit in it.
I play Assetto Corsa. I have downloaded 300GB worth of cars, and I’ll do it again.
https://youtu.be/ALZZx1xmAzg
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
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.
That was true until the early 00s when people were getting destroyed in court for mp3 sharing.
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
YOU WOULDN’T COPY A FLOPPY
Copy anyways and then downloads car
Downloads a fruit cup while at it
YES I WOULD
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
Their attempts to pretend software copying is anything serious was as hilarious in '93 as it is today.
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.
That makes me want to pirate, jesus thats a huge price for a flippin floppy disk.
“Buy my $80 course to learn how you can waste even more money!”
Ahh always nice to revisit my first dose of propaganda.
I would have downloaded a car if I could have.
man its real interesting to see vintage stuff like this