What does she mean there was a “generational shift” that led to people burning CDs? Back in the floppy disk days, everyone was copying floppies—I remember when my grandfather bought a Mac to use at home, and immediately his friends at work loaded him up with copied disks. Which generation is she thinking of that wasn’t pirating a ton of software?
The heady days of using Copy-b and Copy-c in the Commodore 64 days. Back when floppies were really floppies.
Friend of mine we by to the store to buy c64 games on tape. Took them home, copied them using a thing that would connect to datasette units at once. Went back to the store to return our exchange.
After a few rounds of this, the store said no more exchanges
Then he recorded a few seconds of silence somewhere on the tape and said ‘but it’s defective’.
Man. We were high rollers.
