Comment on What was the first thing "pirated" on the net? What was the first thing to be pirated off the net in the modern age?

Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• bunnies@feddit.dk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Music records were the first digital thing to have ever been pirated, period (even before the net existed).

  That doesn’t sound right. What are you referring to? Digital music piracy wasn’t really feasible before the mid nineties, but people were swapping home pc games and apps on tapes and floppies in the eighties. I’m sure there are other, older examples of software piracy as well.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    People were converting vinyl and cassettes to digital files as early as the 70s after floppy disks were a thing.

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    • Davel23@fedia.io ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      People were not trading music on floppy disks. Digital music trading only became feasible and widespread with the introduction of the MP3 codec in the mid-90s.

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    • bunnies@feddit.dk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You can fit a single heavily compressed mp3 song on a “modern” 1.44 MB floppy. Floppies had much less capacity back then, and mp3 wasn’t invented, so the idea that people would be passing around ripped vinyl music on floppies makes absolutely no sense.

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s why you either used multiple disks for a single file, or you converted it to a very low-fidelity format.

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• janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  aren’t music records an analog signal?

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not once it’s converted to a file on a computer. I was not talking about bootlegs where you just copy the vinyl/tape to another vinyl or tape, but the period where we had computers but not the internet.

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    • janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      ahhh gotcha

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