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What does she mean there was a "generational shift" that led to people burning CDs? Back in the floppy disk days, everyone was copying floppies—I remember when my grandfather bought a Mac to use at home, and immediately his friends at work loaded him up with copied disks. Which generation is she thinking of that wasn't pirating a ton of software?
Generational shift means kids bad and stupid. That's all.
A tip for millenials: Whenever you cringe at zoomers for their dumb tiktok dances, remember the badger song and realise every generation is stupid and cringe.
Or just search millennial humor on TikTok and die. Recently tried watching SNL with the family and I cannot understand that humor at all.
Man, any of that comedy central pop comedy stuff... Older movies too, Adam Sandler, Chris Farley... I don't get any of it and that stuff pretty much was my time. It's like people just acted really stupid... There was not any comedy to it, it's just feels sad.
You don’t like Chris Farley? Not all of his stuff but some of it is funny in Billy Madison
Same, I think some people find some things funny and some don't and it isn't all about generational cohort
I've never heard of any badger song.
Badger?
Gotta be this
It predates YouTube and would loop forever.
Almost as good as this
I thought it was gonna be the horse song
What’s the horse song
https://youtu.be/LZAFo4jXhW0
That was painful
Hehehehe yeah you put it on full blast in your buddy’s dorm when he’s down the hall in the bathroom
Mushroom
https://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/
That’s so funny that millennials cringe at zoomers, because I have always found millennials to be infinitely more cringe than zoomers have ever been.
MUSHROOM!
Don't copy that floppy!
I think the generational shift was mostly that the previous generation just didn't have or use computers at home, and suddenly they were everywhere. Most households just didn't have a computer until the late 90s or early 00s. By then, floppies were on their way out, and burning CDs was all the rage.
For a class project in college, I made a 5-disk raid-0 out of floppy drives and demo'd the performance by playing a compressed version of "don't copy that floppy" for the class. Thankfully my lecturer had a sense of humor lol.
There was a period of time where a game being on CD was enough to prevent most copying. Games would read data off the disc, and some of those that didn't need to still required the disc to be in the drive.
When CD burners became cheap enough for everyone to own, they needed new methods of DRM, like authentication, and custom burning methods that couldn't be copied the normal way.
CDs absolutely influenced the scale and speed of it. And it was a generational shift that went from piracy being something that wasn't well understood and mostly a niche issue for music and movie lovers ("home taping is killing music") to something that impacted all types of media.
MP3's sped up copying of music. As for games though, they increased in size because of CD's so that countered any speed up.
Also this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists
Yeah I'm not sure "generational" is the correct term here. It was often the same people living through those eras (and beyond) who were doing the pirating. It wasn't a generational shift in that different generations were necessary for CDs to get copied; everyone in every generation was changing how they operated as technology changed. Piracy naturally evolved with the times. Because of course it did. Why wouldn't it?
right? I had more games for my C64 than any system since
The heady days of using Copy-b and Copy-c in the Commodore 64 days. Back when floppies were really floppies.
Friend of mine we by to the store to buy c64 games on tape. Took them home, copied them using a thing that would connect to datasette units at once. Went back to the store to return our exchange.
After a few rounds of this, the store said no more exchanges
Then he recorded a few seconds of silence somewhere on the tape and said 'but it's defective'.
Man. We were high rollers.