Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 4 days agoWhat was the first thing "pirated" on the net? What was the first thing to be pirated off the net in the modern age?message-squaremessage-square46linkfedilinkarrow-up162arrow-down17
arrow-up155arrow-down1message-squareWhat was the first thing "pirated" on the net? What was the first thing to be pirated off the net in the modern age?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 4 days agomessage-square46linkfedilink
minus-squareBaggie@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up12·4 days agoIirc doom was pretty widely pirated at the time, I might double check. Edit: Romero estimates roughly 70-90% of copies were pirated, which would be actually insane given the popularity of the time https://www.gamesradar.com/games/fps/doom-legend-john-romero-says-the-fps-games-20-million-shareware-players-were-not-pirates-by-default-and-history-is-messier-than-pirates-killed-the-companies/
Iirc doom was pretty widely pirated at the time, I might double check.
Edit: Romero estimates roughly 70-90% of copies were pirated, which would be actually insane given the popularity of the time
https://www.gamesradar.com/games/fps/doom-legend-john-romero-says-the-fps-games-20-million-shareware-players-were-not-pirates-by-default-and-history-is-messier-than-pirates-killed-the-companies/