root42, 29 days ago

@stefanhoeltgen looks over to the two floppy disk cases I got from two different people chock full of pirated C64 games Very!

santiago, 29 days ago

@root42 @stefanhoeltgen When I got my second hand C=64 in 1986 it came with two cases full of diskettes with software and games. It took me a while to understand piracy was a thing. We just “copied” stuff innocently 😇

I think I actually bought one game (and I felt ripped off, it sucked).

osz, 29 days ago

@santiago
Yes, it took me a while to understand that there is such a thing as pirated copies. As a child, I never thought about it. I even bought games very cheaply at flea markets, pirated copies of course. I didn't know at the time that there was any other way. My eyes were opened when a salesperson in the shop looked at me with hatred and started a monologue after I asked him if I could copy an Amiga game. 😁

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santiago, 29 days ago

@osz @root42 @stefanhoeltgen I guess it depends on family environment. My blue collar family really had no idea about licensing as a concept. I had to explain this to them later when I was a teenager. Not that I stopped pirating stuff (for home use) at that time. Being broke I felt little guilt.

I stopped mostly when I switched to OSX and understood it was nice to buy cheap stuff from small devs instead of stealing from large corps.

osz, 29 days ago

@santiago
It was similar for me. My parents really didn't know anything about computers. For them computers were "black magic". When I was at school, I had pirated everything. The "problem" was, after I had figured out how to get everything possible, especially in the age of the Internet, that although I really had almost everything I could possibly have, I hardly used any of it. And it was never enough. But now it's the exact opposite for me: everything is legal.
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santiago, 29 days ago

@osz @root42 @stefanhoeltgen Same . It’s been a long time since I pirated software. Most of the tools I really care about are open source or free now and I have a company to buy the rest. Certainly once you run a business the risk of installing random stuff on your computer doesn’t make piracy so appealing.

Now I see kids have a pirate Steam that downloads games over torrent. I am too old for this shit but it makes me smile.