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"You're not buying the game. You're buying a license to use the game on this computer. So you don't own it, and you cannot do anything you want with it. You *do* own the disk that it's on, but you don't own that data. See what I mean?" I understood at the time only somewhat, but my dad was good to explain, because I still remember that.

Great explanation. Did he also show you Don't Copy That Floppy video, while he was at it? If you had said "that's a lot of money just to own a book" would he have replied: "You're not buying the book. You're buying a license to read the book. So you don't own it, and you cannot do anything you want with it. You do own the paper that it's on, but you don't own that words. See what I mean?" Because that is exactly the same. Books, music, software--it is all the same copyright law, meant to temporarily regulate the right to publish the creative expression (print books, press CDs), not use it (read books, play games, listen to music) and I personally find books the only media that people can be remotely reasonable about. Do you really think you need to obtain the right to read a book, because otherwise reading it is illegal?

Look, infringement of copyright is illegal. In fact, it's even wrong. People shouldn't do it. But that doesn't make it piracy, except through the unjustified and laughably outrageous co-option of the term by publishers, a long long time ago.

"My God! He never took middle school hygiene. He never saw the propaganda film. It's just lucky I keep a copy in the VCR at all times!"

He presses a button and a film title appears on the screen:

DON'T COPY THAT FLOPPY!!!

As a matter of fact, I believe you should also watch young_girl.mpg.

This one is pretty damn bad!

Reminds me of the ~15 yr old campaign "Don't Copy That Floppy", with a rap song and dance and everything. It was way cooler than this half-arsed shite... ^_^

16 mb "Don't Copy That Floppy"

Reminds me of the ~15 yr old campaign "Don't Copy That Floppy", with a rap song and dance and everything. It was way cooler than this half-arsed shite... ^_^

16 mb "Don't Copy That Floppy"

Did you mean this video? I know you want it...

I don't care if they want to check, but they can get up and do the checking in another room ... 1 distraction leads to 2 and on and on).

"Welcome...to the end of the computer age! MUHAHAHAHA!"

How can we forget!

Anyone remember this?

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/video/floppy.php
http://www.ninjaculture.com/articles/057.asp

Speaking as a gay guy who uses "gay" in its other sense as well, I think "stupid" is an oversimplification of its pejorative usage. It doesn't merely mean "stupid", it means something like "lame or ridiculous, but treated as serious by those presenting it."

For example, compare these anti-piracy efforts. This is sorta lame, but this is SO, SO GAY. I can't come up with another one-word description of that ad campaign.

I've been out of the closet since about age 15. Nonetheless, I'm not going to let thin-skinned people ruin a perfectly good word for which there's no precise synonym merely because the people who originated it meant it as an insult to people like me. In case you haven't noticed, those people use different and more hateful words now anyway.

Remeber kids, Don't Copy That Floppy!!!

Don't Copy That Floppy, just go to the store and buy it.

Did I hear you right, did I hear what you're saying, that you're gunna make a copy of a game without payin'? Come on guys!!! I thought you knew better, don't copy that floppy.

Chris

Wanted to find out what happened to our poor AOL developers and if they were currently on the dole, I did a quick seach on google. Unfortunatly not much can be found out on them.
However did find a 107Meg version and a more detailed explaination of the video at Ninja Culter the google cache is here.