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Valve's DRM was inspired by an exec's nephew, who 'used a $500 check I'd sent him for school expenses and bought himself a CD-ROM replicator… he sent me a lovely thank you note' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 100 points 2 years ago* (31 children)

What does she mean there was a "generational shift" that led to people burning CDs? Back in the floppy disk days, everyone was copying floppies—I remember when my grandfather bought a Mac to use at home, and immediately his friends at work loaded him up with copied disks. Which generation is she thinking of that wasn't pirating a ton of software?

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  • [–] 52 points 2 years ago (18 children)

    Generational shift means kids bad and stupid. That's all.

    A tip for millenials: Whenever you cringe at zoomers for their dumb tiktok dances, remember the badger song and realise every generation is stupid and cringe.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Or just search millennial humor on TikTok and die. Recently tried watching SNL with the family and I cannot understand that humor at all.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Man, any of that comedy central pop comedy stuff... Older movies too, Adam Sandler, Chris Farley... I don't get any of it and that stuff pretty much was my time. It's like people just acted really stupid... There was not any comedy to it, it's just feels sad.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Badger?

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Gotta be this

    It predates YouTube and would loop forever.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)
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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I thought it was gonna be the horse song

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Don't copy that floppy!

    I think the generational shift was mostly that the previous generation just didn't have or use computers at home, and suddenly they were everywhere. Most households just didn't have a computer until the late 90s or early 00s. By then, floppies were on their way out, and burning CDs was all the rage.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    For a class project in college, I made a 5-disk raid-0 out of floppy drives and demo'd the performance by playing a compressed version of "don't copy that floppy" for the class. Thankfully my lecturer had a sense of humor lol.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    There was a period of time where a game being on CD was enough to prevent most copying. Games would read data off the disc, and some of those that didn't need to still required the disc to be in the drive.

    When CD burners became cheap enough for everyone to own, they needed new methods of DRM, like authentication, and custom burning methods that couldn't be copied the normal way.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    CDs absolutely influenced the scale and speed of it. And it was a generational shift that went from piracy being something that wasn't well understood and mostly a niche issue for music and movie lovers ("home taping is killing music") to something that impacted all types of media.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Yeah I'm not sure "generational" is the correct term here. It was often the same people living through those eras (and beyond) who were doing the pirating. It wasn't a generational shift in that different generations were necessary for CDs to get copied; everyone in every generation was changing how they operated as technology changed. Piracy naturally evolved with the times. Because of course it did. Why wouldn't it?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The heady days of using Copy-b and Copy-c in the Commodore 64 days. Back when floppies were really floppies.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Friend of mine we by to the store to buy c64 games on tape. Took them home, copied them using a thing that would connect to datasette units at once. Went back to the store to return our exchange.

    After a few rounds of this, the store said no more exchanges

    Then he recorded a few seconds of silence somewhere on the tape and said 'but it's defective'.

    Man. We were high rollers.

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