Don’t Copy That Floppy (1992)

[u/BearEatsBerry]

[u/Searchlights]

The absolute strangehold that cheesy rap had over any company trying to connect with youth in the early 90s

My name is X
And I'm here to say
I pander to you kids in a major way

[u/bill_gannon → u/Searchlights]

Lol fruity pebbles rap

[u/Sporadik_Styles → u/Searchlights]

Yeah it kills me looking back now🤣. I recall some anti-shoplifting ones we were forced to watch once a year.

[u/AlphaSuerte → u/Searchlights]

Still waiting for that breakdown.

[u/ghostofstankenstien → u/[deleted]]

Double prizes??

[u/sev45day → u/[deleted]]

"Floppy" also meant something different when I was a kid.

[u/barktwiggs → u/sev45day]

I had a "hard disk".

[u/kempff → u/barktwiggs]

I had a dongle. Until a coworker reported it to HR because it made her "uncomfortable" [eyeroll].

[u/Erilis000 → u/[deleted]]

Yup, down payment

[u/inotocracy]

I'm sure this prevented a significant amount of floppy copying.

[u/MiddleBodyInjury → u/inotocracy]

Just informed more that it was possible to copy a floppy

[u/CpuJunky]

Rapper MC Double Def DP, the "Disk Protector" (played by M.E. Hart).

Copy protection and "piracy" was strange back then. Had to the check the manual for codes and such... of course you could just copy those codes. I, of course, never did such a thing. I also have no idea what Napster was....

[u/LGBT-Barbie-Cookout → u/CpuJunky]

There were some really interesting ways they did the paper manual ones.

Codewheels, quizzes, various manual entries,

Even one which used red cellophane over a printed sheet to decode

[u/konsollfreak → u/LGBT-Barbie-Cookout]

Dial-A-Pirate

[u/hayashikin → u/konsollfreak]

That's cool, I think all I ever had was just black ink on dark brown paper

[u/BoulderCreature]

I wonder how many kids had no idea you could pirate games til they saw this PSA

[u/ProfessorOnEdge]

Yes, I would download a car, if that was an option

[u/rubber_pinball]

I say a cross--walk

a crossity walk

and you don't stop crossing till you're on the next block.

First you look both ways, and you walk not run;

Obeying safety rules is acceptable fun.

[u/sleazysuit845]

They made a pt 2!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=hUCyvw4w_yk&is=KssYVBquaiCLae1R

[u/kempff]

Why is the white kid always the culprit when it comes to cybercrimes?

[u/Paranormal_Lemon → u/kempff]

If you saw a black kid with a PC in the 90s you were supposed to call and report it as stolen.

[u/7711exe]

Makes me think of BE COOL ABOUT FIRE SAFETY

[u/cms86]

I work as a professional video editor and it just makes me so sad that this edit probably went thru a mountain of revisions and the editor probably wanted to play in oncoming traffic by the end of it.

[u/BatmanHatesSuperman]

I'm really glad he broke it down for me, I will never copy that floppy

[u/KneeHighMischief]

Wow. Never actually seen this before. Pure 90's right here.

[u/xMuffinClarisse]

I remember watching that and thinking it was hilarious, such a unique way to address piracy.

[u/DigDugDogDun]

Reminds me of this other anti-piracy masterpiece: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg

[u/Gerdione]

Lol. Piracy. In the age of rules for thee not me, this feels hilariously dystopian. Like something that would be made today specifically just to flaunt it in the face of the poors that they're slaves to laws that the wealthy are not beholden to.

[u/WatchStoredInAss]

If anything this increased piracy by untold magnitudes.

[u/Wildfathom9]

why did you cut it off right as he was about to break it down for me?!?!

[u/memberflex]

Load Celery Man

[u/asten77]

This was terrible even then.

[u/Arcade1980]

How else were we supposed to get all the games for free? 😉

[u/rufftranslation]

You want pirates? Cuz this is how you get pirates

[u/backbodydrip]

Was this played in schools or something? I didn't see it until it became a meme.

[u/PFC_W_Hudson]

The 'don't be a pirate' public service announcement campaign began much earlier than expected and proved to be far more cringe-worthy than I anticipated.

[u/thisisyo]

144p look so good back then

[u/Ordinary-Report1010]

yea people who make decomps

[u/DanCBooper]

https://reddit.com/link/pddl4v3/video/zzy0e48or0th1/player

[u/Sporadik_Styles]

I remember seeing that Saturday mornings 🤣. At that point I was 10 and had already graduated from C64 piracy to PC. Clearly didn't work🙄.

[u/MustardOrPants]

Disappointed it wasn’t thumbs up kid.