Don't copy that floppy

[HangFire]

http://www.archive.org/details/dontcopythatfloppy/

80s educational video on copyright infringement. Hilarious

No matter how many things I see from the 80s, that decade never ceases to amaze me.

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

Hilarious !!! Did anyone recognize Flight Simulator 4 ?

[Denny]

Floppies are so like 80's

Funny stuff.

[botmeister]

Originally Posted by Whistler

historically only publishers can infringe the copyright, maybe the 80s is the beginning of extending this to the common people.

Interesting. Everyone is now considered to be a publisher because it is easy to make a copy of digital media and post a it on a P2P network for mass distribution.

It looks to me that we are being viewed as "consuming commodities" to be herded like cattle for the benifit of corporate interests. If we're not paying for something, then laws are passed to create the conditions needed to force people into buying whatever it may be.

We're living in a world where evreything imaginable can be owned and paid for.

I'm sure it's just a coincidence that only the big corporations are the ones that end up owning everything.

[Whistler]

Originally Posted by Denny

Floppies are so like 80's

well I still have many floppies, mostly used to save documents
I'm wondering why they don't use 5.25-inch floppies

also a USB memory-stick can't be used to copy software as today's software is too huge

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

I wonder why nothing more convenient than a CD burner has emerged as a standard since the time the 3.5 inch diskette was created.

I also recall how I used to drill all my 720 kb diskettes in the bottom corners to turn them into 1.44Mb HD diskettes for half the price

[botmeister]

Originally Posted by Pierre-Marie Baty

I wonder why nothing more convenient than a CD burner has emerged as a standard since the time the 3.5 inch diskette was created.

I also recall how I used to drill all my 720 kb diskettes in the bottom corners to turn them into 1.44Mb HD diskettes for half the price

LOL I forgot I used to do that too.

There's the double sided DVD burner which can store a few gigs now, there's USB flash memory devices too.

[Denny]

Originally Posted by botmeister

There's the double sided DVD burner which can store a few gigs now, there's USB flash memory devices too.

I know, there's Blu-Ray technology just on the horizon too. A single sided Blu-Ray disc can hold 54GB if i remember correctly.

[HangFire]

And they're probably going to charge a whole lot for them.

The dual-sided DVDs pretty much cost twice as much as normal DVDs, so its not much of an improvement.

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

The problem with DVDs and CDs is that you can't really copy stuff on the fly just like a hard disk. And it ain't very fast to write. USB sticks are wonderful but by no way comparable to the "standard" of the 1.44Mb diskette. I mean, every single computer manufactured for 15 years has been mounted with a 1.44Mb drive. Sony must have enjoyed it