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anti-piracy magazine ad from 1993 (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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don't copy that floppy!

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[-] rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 34 points 2 years ago

Back in the day when the only copyright protection was scare tactics. Anyway looks like an ad for a software product, not actually anti-piracy propaganda. Nostalgic none the less. There was a time when all software was obtained through floppies. I sure was glad to see those go, damn things failed more often than they worked. I kept a big box of blank ones and copied everything off three times in case the first two failed.

[-] BustedPancake@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I still use floppies. They may be gone, but people still use them.

[-] rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

And I thought I was a holdout, didn't remove the floppy drives from my home built desktop computers until like 2005.

[-] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Government still uses them in sensitive situations "for security" (and not having to beg for funding only to risk the upgrade failing and taking down some secret, billion-dollar operation) too.

[-] sweBers@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

So does Chuck e Cheese, or did recently?

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/chuck-e-cheese-animatronic-floppy-disks

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/22/1124441151/some-industries-still-use-floppy-disks-this-is-one-of-the-only-places-to-buy-the

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

For what, if I may ask?

I have a floppy case that I keep my old PS 1+2 and GC memory cards in, but that’s about as much use as I’ve got for the whole thing at this point, so I’m super curious.