Comment on Disc drive needed

protist@retrofed.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is that even legal??

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  • thallamabond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not only legal, this was an old way of distributing software.

    In the early 1980s, engineers over at the Dutch broadcasting organization Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) had this fantastic idea of distributing computer programs over the radio

    amusingplanet.com/…/people-once-downloaded-games-…

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    • Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah but I read it took forever to download them.

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      • thallamabond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Everything about computers was slow then. There was a time when you could read text faster than modems could run text through them.

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  • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Snitches get stitches.

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  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, it would be fair use. Selling the tape would be illegal tho.

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  • Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, it was not legal. Did I give a fuck. Nope.

    Had an audiophile buddy who bought tons of Japanese import vinyl records which he would burn(copy) to tape for me. Later on to CD then even later to DVD’s. Many years later bought tons of original CD’s at flea markets at rock bottom prices. Mainly got them for the artwork. Was not ever worried about the illegality of it.

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    • protist@retrofed.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s totally legal to tape the radio for personal use

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  • protist@retrofed.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Call the feds

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Amongst other things it dependend on the country.

    As a kid in 1980s Portugal, I used to go to a store selling software for the ZX Spectrum (which loaded the software from audio tapes) where the guy just had a bunch of tape copiers and would copy the game as you waited. This was in the outskirts of Lisbon, so hardly an out of the way place.

    Good thing too - that’s how I got my hands on an Assembly compiler and decompiler (this was before the GNU tool suite) and really started my way into programming.

    So it was de facto legal enough that somebody could have an actual store doing it.

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• paranoid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This comment makes me feel so old

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