Yarr! Look out, me hearties – there be a rapping man inside yer computer-picture-box who’s looken’ to steer ye clear of copyin’ yer floppies!
Don’t Copy That Floppy
The video game the kids are playing might be the lamest video game ever (or not). I’m not sure why anyone would want to copy it, since the ’skill’ required to play it appears to be the ability to mash the home row as frantically as possible; actually watching what you’re doing might be only tangentally necessary. Maybe the boss fights require watching the screen?
I know you turned the video off after the mullet-man and nerd-lady started to explain why piracy is bad and GAME MANUALZ R AUSOMES, but there are more rappy bits if you persevere! Joy!
I can’t imagine why this video didn’t stop the rising tide of piracy in the mid-90s. Thankfully, its failure didn’t lead to the ‘end of the computer age’, because I’m pretty sure my life would suck without my gadgets. Whew.
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July 13, 2009 at 15:00
Fred R.
That is the NASTIEST copy protection I have ever seen!
The best bit of Piratey-HipHopcracy
is SONY. One division was selling CD burners, which have NO use in most peoples’ computers except to burn music and software CD, and another division producing media which they didn’t want copied.
Actually, the whole rapper-don’t-copy-that-floppy concept might be a good way to get people to pay for software. Imagine if at the beginning of Spore, you were forced to watch a video of the lead programmer going to the food bank so he could feed his kids. The intern graphic designer having to reuse his Insulin needles, and the huge scars they leave on his arms. The quality control guy sitting in the dark in his apartment, holding his knees and weeping as the landlord bangs at the door, looking for the rent.
July 14, 2009 at 22:43
Viper Pilot
Aaaaargh. Your vision of the future hurts my precious brain.
Fair call on Sony, too. They did the same thing with VCRs back in the day, too. I guess they already had the project plan in place, so why not reuse it?
July 17, 2009 at 03:24
Allan S
How do you find this stuff Viper……? You must have some time machine that allows you to do all kinds of crazy stuff.