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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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[-] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 98 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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?

[-] Banzai51@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Rockbear@feddit.dk 4 points 1 week 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.