iTunes now illegal in the UK

[Collector1337]

When I was at school, everyone used to copy everyone else's computer games. It was very easy as most were on cassette tape. One classmate's father was a police officer, and he would use the police station photocopier to duplicate the instruction booklets for his son. As an analogy for how seriously law enforcement has historically treated breach of copyright, it cannot be beat.

>computer games
>on cassette tape

[Hermit]

When I was at school, everyone used to copy everyone else's computer games. It was very easy as most were on cassette tape. One classmate's father was a police officer, and he would use the police station photocopier to duplicate the instruction booklets for his son. As an analogy for how seriously law enforcement has historically treated breach of copyright, it cannot be beat.

>computer games
>on cassette tape

Well, it was an advance on storing programs in a stack of cardboard cards by punching holes in them.

My early piracy of copyrighted music consisted of soldering a couple of strands of telephone wire to a radio speaker and connecting it via DIN plug to a Grundig reel to reel tape recorder. that would have been around 1963 or 4. I was eleven years old. Despite that the Beatles and Bill Haley still got filthy rich, and the record companies that contracted them even more so.

In fact, I think piracy actually increases sales. A few weeks ago I downloaded a recording of the Brandenburg Concertos that the copyright holder, Euroarts, made available on Youtube. After a few listens I decided that I liked it enough to order the DVD. It arrived last week.

[JimC]

Youngsters today don't know how lucky they are!

[Hermit]

Youngsters today Morons don't know how lucky they are!

You're an ageist geriatric, Jimbo.

[JimC]

It's ageist to call someone a geriatric!

[Hermit]

It's ageist to call someone a geriatric!

Not when they are geriatrics.

[JimC]

I ain't Gerry, and I've never taken an 'atrick...

(but I've bowled a few maidens over)

[Seth]

When I was at school, everyone used to copy everyone else's computer games. It was very easy as most were on cassette tape. One classmate's father was a police officer, and he would use the police station photocopier to duplicate the instruction booklets for his son. As an analogy for how seriously law enforcement has historically treated breach of copyright, it cannot be beat.

>computer games
>on cassette tape

Absolutely true! Radio Shack TRS-80 used 150 baud tone-shift audio recorded to a standard cassette recorder to record one's programming efforts. I found an original cassette tape of "The Electric Pencil", the very first personal computer word-processing program for the TRS-80 among all the crap I threw away when I moved. Probably should have kept it, it might have been a collector's item.

[JimC]

At uni in the 70s, to do a statistical analysis of my research on the ecology of tadpoles, I had to punch all the data onto cards, then take the box of cards over to the central computer, where (after much delay) it was fed into the machine by its white-coated acolytes, and eventually a long roll of dot-matrix printing showed my results.

[mistermack]

At uni in the 70s, to do a statistical analysis of my research on the ecology of tadpoles, I had to punch all the data onto cards, then take the box of cards over to the central computer, where (after much delay) it was fed into the machine by its white-coated acolytes, and eventually a long roll of dot-matrix printing showed my results.

I had a mate in the 70s who got only got 2 O levels, maths and art. But he ended up as Gloucester's greatest ever computer painter.