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?

• Davel23@fedia.io ⁨13⁩ ⁨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 ⁨13⁩ ⁨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 ⁨12⁩ ⁨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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    • bunnies@feddit.dk ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So do you claim that this is the earliest form of digital piracy? Because it’s not really piracy until you share the ripped files, and you say that people were “swapping them with others after floppy disks were a thing”.

      You are clearly mixing up the timeline here.

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    • Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What about the people who put wax on records and took it off and they could play that?

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Still a form of piracy, just not digital.

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