“Don’t copy that floppy!”
In 1992, the “software publisher’s association” released this video to educate youth on the “hazards” of software piracy. It’s so early 90’s it cracked me up. It tried to be hip with a rap theme… just watch it (the lyrics of the outrageous song are here.)
It contains all the basic arguments that we hear today about file-sharing:
1. Responsibility: Piracy will kill the industry because there will be no incentive for creativity (from the video: “welcome to the end of the computer age! booooha ha ha.”)
2. Sympathy: You are stealing from the nice artists/programmers who are working hard to produce a fine product for you (in the video there are 3 programmers and one lawyer interview.)
3. Threat: Piracy is illegal (video: “You can make one backup and install the software only on one PC.”)
4. Benefit: If you buy the product you get all the goodies (video: “you’ll get the manual and all…”)
Well guess what? The software industry is alive and is doing quite well. Music will also prevail.
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