He paid for this way through school by abusing the schools T1 access and pirated shitloads of movies and would dump them all to DVD-Rs and then sell them on ebay. He wouldn't make exact DVD rips, he instead would fill the DVD with tons of different movies or shows and sell them as collections. He did especially well with anime, which was difficult to access in the US at the time.

He later went on to be an electrical engineer at Boeing.

I also remember people hating Valve at first for this DRM scheme, and it's also weird that people forgot that Steam itself is a minimally invasive form of DRM.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 72 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Back then everyone had enough sense to hate all DRM.

Now they'll complain that Linux sucks because it can't play the harry potter game

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I pirated that game just so I could critique how god damned bad it was.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

buying a game doesn't give you the right to be cruel.

both things are free. Enjoy.

[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

When I tell people Lemmy is like the old internet, I'm going to use this specific comment chain to demonstrate it.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He later went on to be an electrical engineer at Boeing.

He wouldn't happen to have been named Kenneth D. Pinyan, would he?

Jokes aside, real question did he meet ol' Kenny Pin?