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Communism killed 11 bajilliondy people and ruined the world forever, also pls report your lefty neighbors to the FBI.
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Have a look for yourself. Also TIL that CDP literally started up by enticing gamers away from pirated games with extra fucking treats in the "legitimate" copies, and making a ton of money off it. Modern AAA publishers must have taken notes from them lmao
Yeah, Poland is obviously a much better country now, what with the abortion ban and "LGBTQ free zones"
if Polandball cartoons had any nerve they'd be ripping Poland a new one for this shit.
You can tell it was a superior country a few years back by the massive literal garbage fires visible from space.
You can probably just edit it and remove all of that. Like, it's exactly as accurate a description of "Launch of Good Old Games" if it starts at the second paragraph, with the addition of like one sentence along the lines of "because effective copyright law did not exist in Poland until [year]" to placate the libs.
EDIT: If you want to be an extra WikiPedant, you can cite WP:NOR over that specific wording since the linked citation doesn't say nearly all of that.
they don't even need alphabet soup to get involved, white moderates will gladly do the reverts out of a sense of civic duty.
This text was definitely added by some random person and nobody bothered to remove it. Just go on there and take it out again if you don't like it.
While under Communism, copyright laws in Poland were virtually non-existent and unenforceable
This is great, though!
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While under Communism, copyright laws in Poland were virtually non-existent and unenforceable, and copyright infringement, in the form of piracy by stripping out any digital rights management (DRM), was rampant across electronic media.
ok, and?
My buddy who had close family contact to Poland and who visited (sometimes took me with them) regularly in the 90s and 2000s was pretty happy about the lack of copyright enforcement. It meant that everyone in his small town was up to date with (mostly western) movies, shows, music and a good deal of literature (as well as porn).
The sharing of information worked by exchanging hard drives most of the time and sometimes CDs/DVDs, often the people with DSL would just be the nodes transforming the digital world to packageable touchable information storage and transmission devices, by being active in P2P networks and accepting requests. Not the worst thing honestly.
I do remember in the lead-up to 2077 there was an interview with Mike Pondsmith where he said some developer told him that in Poland in the 80s you were either a cyberpunk (meaning they played the tabletop role playing game Cyberpunk 2020 which Pondsmith created) or a communist, and they were cyberpunks.
And then he said "Thankfully they werent communists." or something pretty close to that, my man is an insufferable lib.
Honestly at this point I'm just waiting for the declassified CIA docs revealing that all the cyberpunk authors in the 80s were funded by them.
Cyberpunk as a genre got to be the biggest pile of capitalist realist garbage out there. "Wow capitalism sucks and corporations are evil..... to bad they're here to stay huh? *lights up cigarette and kill poor people*"
DRM back then was literally stuff like calling a phone number to get a password so the game would start, or deciphering a code with a cool pirate decoder wheel
I've had to hunt down PDFs of the manual to get some old dos games running.
I installed an ancient dnd game recently that asked for a word "s___" from the manual based on chapter, line, number or something. I guessed "skill" and it worked!!
As others have mentioned there were various anti-copying tricks back in the '80s. But none of this was really "DRM" as we might think of it today, and the phrase wasn't really used until things like DVDs in the late 1990s/early 2000s and the DMCA in the US which made DRM stripping illegal for Americans - and nobody else. To say that Communist-era Poland was rampant with DRM stripping of media is not only a bit strange and anachronistic, but it's also still not a crime in Poland today, or anywhere else outside of the USA. If you live outside of the US you can strip all the DRM you like, so long as you don't widely share or sell those liberated DVD movies afterwards.
iirc DRM wasn't but games still had copy protection usually in the form of like the game asks you to look up a line from the game's manual and input it. I know there was even more sophisticated measures too.
Wikipedia is just too chicken to mention cracking by name, you heard it here first
As far back as the NES at least, video games have had copy prevention in the form of the console validating a "legitimate" copy. Still, that's only 7 years before the fall of the USSR. On PCs it was much more hacky with things like entering passwords from the printed manual.
Most commercial videotape releases had a form of copy prevention that would fuck up the signal when you try to record it onto a second tape, but it really isn't that hard to bypass, as VHS bootlegs were not uncommon at all.
Copy protection in the form of information in a manual or a special wheel with a secret code was common. A floppy disk is easy to copy. For films you could fuck up the vertical blank interval of a signal so it would play on a television but can not record. For console games the NES and Mega Drive have a chip in them which reply a code sequence, but can be crashed by clever tricks to bypass, and is not included in clones like Dendy.
Wikipedia is completing its transformation into a neoliberal disinformation mill.
