▲ 638 ▼ Anon gives a piracy history lesson (thelemmy.club) submitted 3 days ago by GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 118 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/30015573
[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 2 days ago* (3 children) Sometime around 2007 Bahahaha! Oh, OP, please tell us you're ≈20yrs old without saying it outright. 🤣 To the point: I, and everyone I knew, was pirating everything they could —from the early 90s onward. Yes, all of us would've "downloaded a car" in a heartbeat (well, maybe a week of them, at those baud modem speeds. 😅) permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] NotFrenchJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 child) Even a 20 year should know Napster saga (with all the implications involved) happened in 2001. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 child) Spent much time around 20yr olds these days? 😅 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] NotFrenchJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 child) No. So fair enough 🙂 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* There's a reason why K-12 teaching roles're preferred over those at the collegiate level. 🥲 Personally, I happened to choose the former before I knew the ins & outs of the US' brand of Education™, and was relieved to find I'd chosen wisely (ie. luckily). To each their own, of course, but gimme a classroom full of students that aren't chewed up and spat out by life already (or well on their way) any day of the week. Never mind the fact that most of said college students are fervently avoiding looking directly at their future decades' of massive debt and barely-non-zero chance of a job that'll put any meaningful dent in that viciously compounding sum. 🥲 permalink fedilink source parent [–] locuester@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 days ago (1 child) Yep. Grabbing photoshop 7 via zmodem from a wwiv bbs. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago* Hey, when they started listing it as a prereq for advanced design courses in school, I was 100% not gonna let my clever brain sit idle as my poor AF upbringing cost me another educational opportunity. Fuck the Man, I crave knowledge and pursue it like it's a civil right. (FWIW, why it isn't is kinda essential to this whole thread's point, IMHO.} permalink fedilink source parent [–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago (1 child) Our Apple User Group received a letter from Bill Gates back in the 1980s admonishing people for pirating his compiler. It was hilariously badly done. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago* How shamelessly ironic of him. 🤣🖕🏼 (Get fucked by an undead horde, Gates. You're trying to be the Democrat among oligarchs —which hasn't aged well at all, ya pedo.) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] NotFrenchJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 child) Even a 20 year should know Napster saga (with all the implications involved) happened in 2001. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 child) Spent much time around 20yr olds these days? 😅 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] NotFrenchJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 child) No. So fair enough 🙂 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* There's a reason why K-12 teaching roles're preferred over those at the collegiate level. 🥲 Personally, I happened to choose the former before I knew the ins & outs of the US' brand of Education™, and was relieved to find I'd chosen wisely (ie. luckily). To each their own, of course, but gimme a classroom full of students that aren't chewed up and spat out by life already (or well on their way) any day of the week. Never mind the fact that most of said college students are fervently avoiding looking directly at their future decades' of massive debt and barely-non-zero chance of a job that'll put any meaningful dent in that viciously compounding sum. 🥲 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 child) Spent much time around 20yr olds these days? 😅 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] NotFrenchJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 child) No. So fair enough 🙂 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* There's a reason why K-12 teaching roles're preferred over those at the collegiate level. 🥲 Personally, I happened to choose the former before I knew the ins & outs of the US' brand of Education™, and was relieved to find I'd chosen wisely (ie. luckily). To each their own, of course, but gimme a classroom full of students that aren't chewed up and spat out by life already (or well on their way) any day of the week. Never mind the fact that most of said college students are fervently avoiding looking directly at their future decades' of massive debt and barely-non-zero chance of a job that'll put any meaningful dent in that viciously compounding sum. 🥲 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] NotFrenchJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 child) No. So fair enough 🙂 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* There's a reason why K-12 teaching roles're preferred over those at the collegiate level. 🥲 Personally, I happened to choose the former before I knew the ins & outs of the US' brand of Education™, and was relieved to find I'd chosen wisely (ie. luckily). To each their own, of course, but gimme a classroom full of students that aren't chewed up and spat out by life already (or well on their way) any day of the week. Never mind the fact that most of said college students are fervently avoiding looking directly at their future decades' of massive debt and barely-non-zero chance of a job that'll put any meaningful dent in that viciously compounding sum. 🥲 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* There's a reason why K-12 teaching roles're preferred over those at the collegiate level. 🥲 Personally, I happened to choose the former before I knew the ins & outs of the US' brand of Education™, and was relieved to find I'd chosen wisely (ie. luckily). To each their own, of course, but gimme a classroom full of students that aren't chewed up and spat out by life already (or well on their way) any day of the week. Never mind the fact that most of said college students are fervently avoiding looking directly at their future decades' of massive debt and barely-non-zero chance of a job that'll put any meaningful dent in that viciously compounding sum. 🥲 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 days ago (1 child) Yep. Grabbing photoshop 7 via zmodem from a wwiv bbs. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago* Hey, when they started listing it as a prereq for advanced design courses in school, I was 100% not gonna let my clever brain sit idle as my poor AF upbringing cost me another educational opportunity. Fuck the Man, I crave knowledge and pursue it like it's a civil right. (FWIW, why it isn't is kinda essential to this whole thread's point, IMHO.} permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago* Hey, when they started listing it as a prereq for advanced design courses in school, I was 100% not gonna let my clever brain sit idle as my poor AF upbringing cost me another educational opportunity. Fuck the Man, I crave knowledge and pursue it like it's a civil right. (FWIW, why it isn't is kinda essential to this whole thread's point, IMHO.} permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago (1 child) Our Apple User Group received a letter from Bill Gates back in the 1980s admonishing people for pirating his compiler. It was hilariously badly done. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago* How shamelessly ironic of him. 🤣🖕🏼 (Get fucked by an undead horde, Gates. You're trying to be the Democrat among oligarchs —which hasn't aged well at all, ya pedo.) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago* How shamelessly ironic of him. 🤣🖕🏼 (Get fucked by an undead horde, Gates. You're trying to be the Democrat among oligarchs —which hasn't aged well at all, ya pedo.) permalink fedilink source parent