don’t copy that floppy!
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.
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
Their attempts to pretend software copying is anything serious was as hilarious in '93 as it is today.
“Buy my $80 course to learn how you can waste even more money!”
“When you use illegally copied software, you’re committing…DOS and Macintosh”
Don’t dead, open inside-type vibes
Meanwhile inside Microsoft: I’ll just copy this Xerox GUI aannndddd … Windows!
YOU WOULDN’T COPY A FLOPPY
Copy anyways and then downloads car
swapped the floppies…???
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
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.
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.
For those unfamiliar with this campaign - note the SPA logo with the “Don’t copy that floppy” slogan in the middle of the page:
man its real interesting to see vintage stuff like this
