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We had to use these dammit.
I'm actually considering going back to doing this.. just with blurays.
My data hoarding illness is getting out of hand and m-disks are starting to look attractive to me.
I saw some post the other day by a teenaged girl, saying something along the lines of “y’all are mixing up the Challenger explosion and 9/11. There’s NO WAY teachers actually turned the classroom TVs on to watch the towers fall. You millennials didn’t watch it happen live.”
Oh girl, we absolutely watched it live.
Oh girl, we absolutely watched it live.
then got sent home from school that day and saw it covered everywhere and it was the only thing everyone would talk about and wouldn't shut the fuck up about. After a while it was just fucking annoying to hear about it.
I'm in Europe. I still remember my dad calling me on the landline after school, telling me to "turn on the TV and have fun". To this day I don't understand why he added the "have fun" part..
I was literally in between jobs, at home which at the time was in The Netherlands and by chance was watching CNN International and saw the second plane hit the Twin Towers as it happened.
So, live, a 1/4 of the way around the World.
I believe you (I'm 29) but why did everyone's teacher wheel in the TV cart?
My school, we had a CRT TV up in the corner of each room. How else would we see the student-produced morning announcements?
My mother just gave me the walkman I had in high school, which I guess was in a box somewhere in her house. It still works, and in it was a cassette I taped off the radio
Is that even legal??
Amongst other things it dependend on the country.
As a kid in 1980s Portugal, I used to go to a store selling software for the ZX Spectrum (which loaded the software from audio tapes) where the guy just had a bunch of tape copiers and would copy the game as you waited. This was in the outskirts of Lisbon, so hardly an out of the way place.
Good thing too - that's how I got my hands on an Assembly compiler and decompiler (this was before the GNU tool suite) and really started my way into programming.
So it was de facto legal enough that somebody could have an actual store doing it.
Snitches get stitches.
We all taped the radio. If we ran out of cassettes we’d get sticky tape and put it over the hole at the top to allow recording over recorded stuff we didn’t want
A friend of mine spent weeks creating a single cassette mixtape off pausing recording while songs were being played.
Not only legal, this was an old way of distributing software.
In the early 1980s, engineers over at the Dutch broadcasting organization Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) had this fantastic idea of distributing computer programs over the radio
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/04/people-once-downloaded-games-from-radio.html?m=1
Yeah but I read it took forever to download them.
No, it was not legal. Did I give a fuck. Nope.
Had an audiophile buddy who bought tons of Japanese import vinyl records which he would burn(copy) to tape for me. Later on to CD then even later to DVD’s. Many years later bought tons of original CD’s at flea markets at rock bottom prices. Mainly got them for the artwork. Was not ever worried about the illegality of it.
Edit: I also have a boatload of .flac rock songs and oldies I downloaded as well and have stashed away.
It's totally legal to tape the radio for personal use
Call the feds
Yeah, it would be fair use. Selling the tape would be illegal tho.
You ever have a car cd player that plays files? You could put every song you downloaded from LimeWire onto a single disc.
That was an amazing time to be alive. I miss it sometimes. No need for a music streaming service when you have 4 gigs of music on one CD. Then If you get bored you can pull out the other CDs that also have stupid amounts of music. Or maybe you burned all of a language learning program onto one disc. ALL of the language discs onto one.
how did you 4 gigs of music on a 700m CD??
He probably meant dvd.
They probably mean the mp3 equivalent of what it would be in wav, since most any CD player that could genuinely care about files could play mp3's. ... Although that could easily get past six CDs on one's worth so... I dunno'!
When I started listening to the harry Potter audiobooks I had the first 4 on tape. They filled a small suitcase.
I got 5 and 6 on CDs, each with ~20-25 CDs.
The 7th book came on mp3 CDs. Just 3 for the whole book. It absolutely blew my mind
Man limewire got me laid so much.
I was a Napster guy, then a Kazaa guy. I had moved on to torrents by the time Limewire was the big thing.
Though I haven't actually pirated anything in over 10 years. Was thinking of getting back into it and setting up a Jellyfin to keep some family members from giving money to streaming services that support fascists, but don't even know where to get files anymore. I've already got a VPN for privacy reasons, so I think I'm good there, but I can't imagine Pirate Bay is still a safe source
Pirate bay is still a great source if you use your brain in terms of the types of files you are downloading etc. I get a lot of TV shows etc from there with no issues at all.
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The Old Magic Will not be Discussed with Children of New
I think burning CDs is a hate crime. They should be loved, and maybe given better wigs
Wigs?
CD also stands for Cross Dresser.
Lmaooo
Captain Disillusion
I was referring to vinyl records sold in stores. That stuff is definitely copy written. I’ve never taped any radio stuff before so I don’t know the legality of that stuff.
When I was 15 I bought a CD burner for my PC. This was circa 1999 and Napster. It cost about $250 (which is a little over $500 in 2026) and it had to be installed and in a more complex fashion beyond plug USB and let's drivers auto install. I was selling custom CDs for $5 with case inserts and paid off the burner in about a month. Then someone snitched on me in school and eventually burners started becoming standard on all new machines
Remember the audio cable that had to be installed inside from the CD player/burned to the motherboard?
If you didn't install that you couldn't actual hear the music from audio CDs (which had a different format than data CDs) because it was the player itself processing on the fly the audio tracks like the in the standalone audio-only CD players, rather than it coming in as data to the processor (this was probably done like that because the processors back then were pretty weak plus PCs didn't have that much memory and audio CDs had the data in PCM format, which is not compressed, so we're talking tracks of 90MB in systems with less than that in memory).
It was 2002. Was going on a 1 year assignment to Australia.
Spent almost 24 straight hours feeding CD after CD into my fancy 6x reader, ripping and converting to MP3.
Almost 25 years later(!), same direcory has been added to and copied to a hosted VPS from which I stream.
It’s slang for using Nero burning ROM
And people still say Germans lack a sense of humor…
"How is burning a CD supposed to make a copy, again?"
rookie mistake, they forgot to rip it first
They're burning to see deez nuts! Got 'em!
“Press play on tape one.”
My son who's 15 now had a word problem when he was about 9. It was something like "Billy burned 9 CDs and April burned 4 CDs, how many CDs did they have in total". He asked me for help because he didn't understand how the answer wasn't 0 CDs. FML.
CDz burning nutz!
Might wanna see a doctor.
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