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Interesting that it was quasi legal in Italy. I remember being in Mexico City in the early 2000s and seeing dvds of software being sold. What was remarkable t
by acomjean 2y ago
Interesting that it was quasi legal in Italy.
I remember being in Mexico City in the early 2000s and seeing dvds of software being sold. What was remarkable to me was some wasn’t games but professional applications like autocad and maya..
- mistrial9 2y agoHong Kong in 1998 had small stores with professional software piracy. "There are no software companies here" was the rumor.. all tech companies that had regular income and employees sold hardware. Any software development professionally was associated with a hardware company of some kind at that time there.
- charlieyu1 2y agoI remember being there, long queues of people buying copied floppy disks. We even created “Game Doctor” which is basically a device that could jailbreak SFC to play games copies to floppies.
- pjmlp 2y agoSame in Portugal during this time period, it was almost impossible to buy actual legal software for 8 and 16 bit home computers. Most shops would have floppies and tapes, with covers that were copied mostly B&W, or a bit more pricy for colour. With luck you could get some printout copies of the manuals as well, or very least the "copy protection codes". The dream of most kids during the 8 bit days was a doule deck tape recorder.