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Don't Copy That Floppy (Official Video - Digitally Remastered)

AntiSoftwarePirates · 2.5M views · 2009-04-02 · 9:43

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Overview

The 1992 SIIA anti-piracy rap video Don't Copy That Floppy, warning kids against copying software, remastered and uploaded.

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Referenced only as a nostalgic, cringeworthy joke in threads about floppies and piracy.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2013–2024

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Computing culture (other)Law, policing & justiceDemoscene & retrocomputing
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ethbr1 · 2024-02 · Joke / meme

The UK is just doing it wrong. You've got to be cool with the message for the fellow kids, dog. [VIDEO] (1992) ... and that's how the US solved digital piracy and never had to worry about it again.

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anon49124 · 2018-10 · Joke / meme

Don't copy that floppy With its very own horrible rap video with Flight Simulator in the background. [VIDEO]

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jerryr · 2013-10 · Joke / meme

Thank you for kicking off the youtubes. I really, really needed to post this here: [VIDEO] (don't copy that floppy)

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