sorry, I copied that floppy.

[17daysolderthannes]

someone pirated the anti-piracy video:

zOBroA2NPNY

[sega fan]

Thanks to Steam; Problem Solved.

EDIT: Cool post. Haven't seen this in a while. I laughed my ass off at "Retarded Dancing" in the subtitles.

[Guntz]

Also laughed at "Retarded Dancing". :D

Haha "More Retarded Dancing".

Irony is such a beautiful thing really.

[djshok]

Hahaha, awesome, I love cheesy 90s videos.

[Why-Disciple]

Goddammit I hated that guy! He'd take over my Windows 3.1 computer EVERY TIME I was doing something he didn't approve of, even if it wasn't piracy. "Don't fap- don't fap to that porno!" Seven minutes. Seven minutes he would spend rapping and showing me interviews with priests. Glad we live in an age where no one gives a shit anymore.

[M4R14NO94]

Also laughed at "Retarded Dancing". :D

Haha "More Retarded Dancing".

Irony is such a beautiful thing really.

Also, "I wonder if they put this retarded dancing here just because they couldn't think of another stanza to write"

Also, THIS:


Telenet’s actually endorsed a series of Valis X games, with four more titles that focus on other characters like Cham, Valna, and Yuko’s stupid classmate Reiko getting sapphic with each other. Telenet also has the temerity to charge about $25 for every game, and they’re download-only. You don’t even get a DVD copy with special-edition packaging, which would come in handy when you wanted people to leave your apartment. The upside? Someone might swipe the games and slap them into a torrent for all the Internet to see. And though I normally don't promote that sort of overt thievery, people shouldn’t pay money for something like Valis X, because that’ll just encourage more of it.

http://www.kidfenris.com/dctf.gif

Fuck you, MC Double Def DP. Telenet doesn’t deserve a single yen for this.

From this page: http://www.kidfenris.com/archive2006-1.html

[Rusty Venture]

I often wondered if they looked for a black guy who couldn't rap worth a shit, or got him by accident.

And my dad copied tons of floppies years before MC Double Def DP started scaring middle school into not playing games on Macs.

[kool kitty89]

I often wondered if they looked for a black guy who couldn't rap worth a shit, or got him by accident.

And my dad copied tons of floppies years before MC Double Def DP started scaring middle school into not playing games on Macs.

And don't forget the rampant casette copying and trading in europe ;). (I've heard stories of teachers promoting that too -I think someone on this forum mentioned that) They also mentioned that it wasn't so much like, copy this and continue spreading it, but often more liek a group of friends buying some new games each and then copying them and swaping the copies.

Anyway, has anyone else seen the recent official sequel to this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUCyvw4w_yk
hUCyvw4w_yk

Oh, and apparently there's a trailer as well...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHaAFqoVLtI
fHaAFqoVLtI

[Joe Redifer]

I am concerned about the students in the video. At first they are concerned because they are nearing 4th period and they DO NOT want to be caught in the computer lab. But then they spend nearly 10 minutes getting a whoop down by MC Double Def DP and then after that they play another game! WHAT ABOUT 4TH PERIOD? This video is not about anti-piracy, it's about turning our youth into friggin' delinquents!

PS - Why the eff are there Klingons in the sequel video?

[Karakasa-Obake]

Oh hey, they are playing my favorite games at the end: Random Button Smashing 5.

[Nunzio]

I got all my games from my dad on copied 5 1/4" floppies. I think we had like 3 legit games.

When CDs were first making it big it was impossible to copy them. It would take like 15 disks. Then they had those Macs with CDs in those special cases like Nintendo was going to use on their SNES CD add on.

Good times. But copying wasn't a huge deal. I remember playing the demos for Wolfenstein and Doom and copying those floppies was legit and lead to massive sales.

[kool kitty89]

When CDs were first making it big it was impossible to copy them. It would take like 15 disks. Then they had those Macs with CDs in those special cases like Nintendo was going to use on their SNES CD add on.Those CD caddies weren't propritary though, not sure about MACs, but PCs had them too, and the caddies weren't sealed, you had to buy them separately and insert the discs yourself. (caddie drives required it)


Good times. But copying wasn't a huge deal. I remember playing the demos for Wolfenstein and Doom and copying those floppies was legit and lead to massive sales.
They want you to copy and distribute those though, that's the beauty of shareware, in fact I think both Doom and Wolf3D explicitly promote the copying and distribution in the game.

[Nunzio]

They want you to copy and distribute those though, that's the beauty of shareware, in fact I think both Doom and Wolf3D explicitly promote the copying and distribution in the game.

Yeah, but just an example of how they used piracy to improve the industry. It's like music and the internet. They complain that the internet is ruining the industry, but it is having the highest sales of all time (even adjusted for inflation) because of internet sales.

Copying floppies was essential to get games to a wider audience and thereby increase sales across the board.

[FoxHound]

Ahh, this when we were headed to have the Key codes for each disc...yet you could still copy a game and use the same CD code for a copy.
oh that must of been some game to copy on to that 1.44MB floppy :)

[Rusty Venture]

And don't forget the rampant casette copying and trading in europe ;). (I've heard stories of teachers promoting that too -I think someone on this forum mentioned that) They also mentioned that it wasn't so much like, copy this and continue spreading it, but often more liek a group of friends buying some new games each and then copying them and swaping the copies.

My dad would make copies of Apple 2 games in the late 80's. He'd borrow games/programs and make copies for us to use.

The weird part is he still gets copies of things from friends, while I've always got the programs I have legally (not necessarily full price, but legal).


Anyway, has anyone else seen the recent official sequel to this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUCyvw4w_yk
hUCyvw4w_ykIs that the same dude from the original video? If so, his rhymin' skillz have improved!

[kool kitty89]

Yeah, but just an example of how they used piracy to improve the industry. It's like music and the internet. They complain that the internet is ruining the industry, but it is having the highest sales of all time (even adjusted for inflation) because of internet sales.

Copying floppies was essential to get games to a wider audience and thereby increase sales across the board.

Yeah, but distributing shareware/demos isn't actual piracy. ;)


My dad would make copies of Apple 2 games in the late 90's. He'd borrow games/programs and make copies for us to use.

The weird part is he still gets copies of things from friends, while I've always got the programs I have legally (not necessarily full price, but legal). Other than some of the old console games I have for emulators and a couple old DOS games (Silpheed, Thexder, Alone In the Dark), same here. Except we almost always had one copy installed to several PCs (and have had virtual CD for quite a while). And then there's soem newer games which required a product key to work, and one used copy of Serious Sam 2 we got had the label with the key obliterated... (we didn't notice that until later unfortunately)




Is that the same dude from the original video? If so, his rhymin' skillz have improved!
He doesn't really look 8 years older to me, and sounds kind of different, but it's not like he necessarily wrote the lyrics in either case.

[Rusty Venture]

I think you mean 18-19 years older.

The clothing styles and slang were pure early 90's. I'd guess 1990-1992.

[Joe Redifer]

It was 1993. And yes it is the same guy. He is so rad.

[17daysolderthannes]

It was 1993. And yes it is the same guy. He is so rad.

he's like the Powerglove of piracy videos.

[Melf]

PS - Why the eff are there Klingons in the sequel video?

http://cache.g4tv.com/ImageDb3/44887_L/Lieutenant-Worf-Klingon-Star-Trek-The-Next-Generation.jpg

Do not copy that floppy!

[Joe Redifer]

I suppose that makes sense, but no cylons or stormtroopers?

[Nunzio]

I wouldn't mind getting an old rig together with 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 floppy drives and swapping games with people like we did in school. It would be so much fun! Trading rare games and stuff. I would kill somebody for some of the old Links expansion courses!

[kool kitty89]

I wouldn't mind getting an old rig together with 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 floppy drives and swapping games with people like we did in school. It would be so much fun! Trading rare games and stuff. I would kill somebody for some of the old Links expansion courses!

There's a combo 3 1/2+5 1/4" drive lying around that was previously sitting unconnected in my previous desktop PC, I think that still works too. (for some reason my last computer didn't seem to liek it though, I don't recall if it was a software or hardware problem) Maybe I could use that whenever I get around to building a retro win9x PC. (albeit I have few games on floppy, I have SQ1 from a grage sale over a decade ago that I never played, soe other games apparently lost -some generic shmup and MS Arcade pack 1) The rest are all on CD or DVD. (lots of DOS/9x games though which don't work on newer systems, or are too taxing to run in dosbox -like Wing Commander III/VI)

[fatboy]

Ahhhhh, I see a thread about late 80's / early 90's floppy piracy, and now all I can think of are sweet, sweet memories of My commodore 64. As I read the thread, My eyes keep darting back and forth to the SX-64 I have sitting a few feet away from Me.
The "Crackers" (the programmers who broke the copy protection on disks) used to put colorful, animated loading screens on the beginnings of their wares just to brag about how they went about cracking the protection.
In fact, I'm pretty sure that every C64 user's software library was at least 90% pirated software.....