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anti-piracy magazine ad from 1993
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don't copy that floppy!
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The ad makes more sense if you actually read it. They're talking about enterprise software being used for business where correct licensing and license fees is a VERY VERY BIG legal deal and those level of fines are not just scare tactics. And this was software meant for IT crews to maintain legal compliance and crack down on inter-office copy sharing.
Corporations got cash up the wazoo, they can and always should pay for their licenses. Employees (or managers) pirating shit is just a grift in the business world.
That was true until the early 00s when people were getting destroyed in court for mp3 sharing.
All my homies hate proprietary codecs. Opus and ogg vorbis go brrrr
Don't forget flac, which was playable on many devices.