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I had a friend back in the early 2000’s who did this.
He paid for this way through school by abusing the schools T1 access and pirated shitloads of movies and would dump them all to DVD-Rs and then sell them on ebay. He wouldn’t make exact DVD rips, he instead would fill the DVD with tons of different movies or shows and sell them as collections. He did especially well with anime, which was difficult to access in the US at the time.
He later went on to be an electrical engineer at Boeing.
I also remember people hating Valve at first for this DRM scheme, and it’s also weird that people forgot that Steam itself is a minimally invasive form of DRM.
Back then everyone had enough sense to hate all DRM.
Now they’ll complain that Linux sucks because it can’t play the harry potter game
I pirated that game just so I could critique how god damned bad it was.
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?
Generational shift means kids bad and stupid. That’s all.
A tip for millenials: Whenever you cringe at zoomers for their dumb tiktok dances, remember the badger song and realise every generation is stupid and cringe.
Or just search millennial humor on TikTok and die. Recently tried watching SNL with the family and I cannot understand that humor at all.
Man, any of that comedy central pop comedy stuff… Older movies too, Adam Sandler, Chris Farley… I don’t get any of it and that stuff pretty much was my time. It’s like people just acted really stupid… There was not any comedy to it, it’s just feels sad.
You don’t like Chris Farley? Not all of his stuff but some of it is funny in Billy Madison
Same, I think some people find some things funny and some don’t and it isn’t all about generational cohort
I made so much money in high school downloading MP3s or anime from Napster/Kazaa/Limewire and burning then to CD/DVD since I was, like, the only kid in town with a computer, access to the internet, and a DVD burner. I remember getting asked how my parents let me get away with it and I was like “my dad is the one who taught me how to do it!” He was always borrowing games or music from co-workers. He got the DVD burner to make copies, since DRM was basically non-existent at the time for a majority of games. S’how we had Quake!
Of the 50ish Amiga floppy disks we had, I think Bubble Bobble was the only one my dad actually bought.
