Although Napster and music downloading really put it into the public eye, the first thing pirated, was definitely a game. We used to have to look up code words in the instruction manual to prove that we bought the game LOOONG before most people knew the high seas even existed.
Pirating games pre-dated a lot of widespread personal computers. I had some bootleg Atari 2600 games on audio tape with a module you could use to load them onto the console.
LucasArts and I think Sierra games would put red/blue text blocks where you had to put the red film over the text to read it. Photocopying yielded a black box.
Although Napster and music downloading really put it into the public eye, the first thing pirated, was definitely a game. We used to have to look up code words in the instruction manual to prove that we bought the game LOOONG before most people knew the high seas even existed.
Pirating games pre-dated a lot of widespread personal computers. I had some bootleg Atari 2600 games on audio tape with a module you could use to load them onto the console.
I remember photocopying game manuals at school to get around this. Lol
LucasArts and I think Sierra games would put red/blue text blocks where you had to put the red film over the text to read it. Photocopying yielded a black box.