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When did we reach a point piracy has better service than paying? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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[–] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Back in 1983, when my neighbor copied the Monopoly game for me to play on my C64. Cassette drive. Shit took forever to load. Fun af. At that point, the idea of paying seemed ridiculous. Then came the npd bbs era. Aye, matey. 🏴‍☠️

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I remember walking around my neighborhood with a box of floppies going from friend to friend making mass copies of games we had for the c64 (was popular among my friends). We were just sharing, didn't even think about piracy then. Cracktro's were just neat things to my tiny brain then, not "we cracked this, you pirated it!". I really didn't get that point of it being piracy until I hit a BBS outside of my normal area that had FULL PROGRAMS to d/l for free! Took a month and a day at 300baud but holy crap, that program costs literally over $1000 but there it is in all it's free glory. That was really my beginning into donning the hat and setting sail.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    We were on the same path! I started my own bbs, which eventually got me access to some of the big time bbs clearing houses that had cd towers worth of stuff. They had isdn lines, 28.8 modem banks, etc. I had to do a phone interview with one of them... I think that was "Phantom West" and another one that happened to be in my calling area called "Transfixus Sed Non Mortus", which eventually got busted. Those Phantom guys actually produced pirated discs and manuals to sell at computer swap meets and to China.

    Dogs were off the leash then. Did I need Harvard Graphics? No. Was I downloading it? Yup!

    As I grow older and can afford software, apps mostly, I'm ok with throwing a little back to the dev. Can fuck right off with a subscription, however.

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