Jan 25 2010
Don’t Copy That Floppy!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI
I’m not exactly sure why you would go about digitally remastering this “Don’t Copy That Floppy!” anti-piracy video from 1991, but someone did, and I thank them for it.
With a song that will be stuck in your head for days, MC uh, I forget, something about copy protection, raps and dances you through all the ways that piracy will kill not only the video game industry BUT THE ENTIRE COMPUTER ERA, which as we all know, was brought crashing down by piracy ten years ago…
Oh wait, no, it’s still around, and so is piracy, yet video game companies are making insane amounts of cash.
It’s funny that in a lot of ways, piracy was easier back in 1991, where all you had to do was literally, “copy that floppy.” Today, for the PC you either have to download torrents, keygens and cracks, or for consoles, you have to get a mod chip and burn downloaded games onto discs. This is all so much work that even I don’t bother with it.
I wish there was some way to just make this guy my screensaver. If the 1990s could be summed up in one video, it might be a tie between this one and the Fresh Prince of Bel Air intro.
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They made a sequel to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUCyvw4w_yk
It wasn’t that easy back in the day. Many games had copy protection built in that would force you to find a word in the manual (page X, paragraph X, word X) so you’d need to photocopy the manual too. Or some used some sort of decoder wheel contraption which you’d need to make a copy of as well.
Hilarious!
and thx for the link hun23
its seems that in the second part they gave up on asking not to copy because they would not make any sequels and decided to threaten people with prison rape
i think the best anti-piracy protection is to make great games and be kind to your costumers and they will appreciated, Paradox Interactive is an example of a small game developer that does not include any sort of protection in their games, you dont even need the CD to play and they release regular updates and have very helpful forums, loyal fans and a company like that you just want to help out buying all their games.
You cant say that about EA games and Spore for example.
Piracy can never be stopped because it represents unsatisfied demand. Anywayz very funny video
Things like this make me want to go out and steal shit. Does that make me a bad person?
Also am I the only one who found that rapper intensely creepy?
Last, I really think it would have been a much better commercial if when the kid said, ” Right like I’m a criminal” the girl had said “well, you do have an eight-bag of weed in your pocket” and they had toked up with the creepy fucking rapper and the Neverwinter Nights programmers.
I watched that sequel and it made two things official. One is tht DP is fucking psycopathic what with the whole if children pirate shit the Secret police will come to your house and throw your mother into garbage on the street. Two is that that whoever filmed these commercials got their actors stoned before shooting.