If you tried to pirate stuff back in the day, they’d set fire to your video recorder – with a virus
There wasn’t so much pirating back in the day of VHS video recorders and tape to tape double cassette players.
Not only was it more time consuming and the results a bit crappy, THIS COULD HAPPEN.
Copy-protection in the 80s and early 90s consisted mostly of challenging grandmas to games of Technology Chicken. pic.twitter.com/XubBuAYYlH
— Squint (@ninetysixdelta) July 10, 2017
This makes me laugh so hard. People believed it too!
— Barnacules (@Barnacules) July 10, 2017
This is the best one. (from cat sitter) pic.twitter.com/TCh2Ykls5I
— AfterBurnerTeirusu (@ABTeirusu) July 10, 2017
i have no regrets pic.twitter.com/2ZR9SSpEfO
— Jim Barrett (@jadoba) July 10, 2017
It's a shame, because copied VCRs on non-HD TVs only showed the highest quality movies.
— Elizabeth Picciuto (@epicciuto) July 10, 2017
This could had solved "The Ring" with one sticker.
— Joe Santi (@JoeAconite) July 11, 2017
