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Why do anti-piracy people often treat us as the "villains" of the story?
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I don't remember ever seeing such an advertisement in my life.
YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A CAR
I totally would
In this day, I'm pretty sure the entirety of the middle class and below would if they could.
and then download a house
That "you wouldn't download a car" became the meme while the ad itself said "you wouldn't steal a car" drives home exactly how effective these ads were at conflating the two.
NOT ONLY WOULD I DOWNLOAD A CAR, I WOULD THEN WORK ON A WAY TO LET EVERYONE DOWNLOAD CARS
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You've never seen this? Never heard "home taping is killing music" or "don't copy that floppy"?
No to all of those. I don't remember ever seeing a floppy. Oldest media formats I remember using are cds and cassettes. And that was in elementary school.
ig the piracy is theft advertising was more of a 90s thing that died down in the 2000s if those are your examples?
Yeah, I guess so. Best I can recall, most people I knew were either avid pirates or casually saw it as low-level criminal activity by the early 2000s.