It's upside down! Why are we not taking about the real issue. The disks will slide out...
Discs, and they won’t slide out if your CD wallet is of good quality!
I kinda miss the days of pirating a movie, burning it to a disk, and then popping it into a DVD player. Like it's objectively more convenient now, with Jellyfin/Emby/Plex media servers that can stream to any device in your home, but it has lost some of the analogue charm of feeling like a hackerman dressed like Neo when you gave a friend or a family member a DVD with sharpie writing on it, and them thinking you were some tech genius lmao.
I remember some software where you could include like a custom DVD menu, where you could press chapters and subtitles and stuff before starting the film, and thinking I was the coolest person in the world when I showed my friends hahahha. Ah good times. Thanks for the nostalgia trip.
Hell yeah. And before DVD burners, you could burn Invader Zim eps to a VCD and pop that into a DVD player, amazing your friends!
Early piracy was just so fun. Like I'm glad that it's more simple, and accessible now, and that you are less likely to use your dial-up internet to download a virus over 3 days... But, it was so exciting lmao. Like it felt like you were stepping into some underground club that no one knew about - even though you were a 12 year old nerd with no prospects of a girlfriend in the near future hahahaha. But it was really fun, and it helped me learn to like problem-solving, and the idea of piracy, and open-source software def also helped me develop some ideas about the world around sharing, and stuff.
Anyway I think that's enough gushing about that hahaha, just wanted to indulge in my nostalgia for a minute.
Are you absolutely me?
Did you spend 33 minutes downloading an MP3 of “Eyes on Me” from FFVIII, praying that nobody picks up the phone, then nearly crying while listening to it because your family computer plays MIDI files so poorly compared to your friends’ family computers?
Early piracy for me was getting PC games on floppy disks from friends and relatives. It was kind of just accepted everyone who had a computer would copy their games and software for everyone else to use.
It owned tbh.
:they-live-sunglasses-off: haha, millennials are no longer young
:they-live-sunglasses-on: entrust your secrets to the cloudFilled a couple of these with 10p DVDs from charity shops and it's low-key amazing
T H E C L O U D is enshittified pretty badly, so maybe it's time for that to go back into style.
Me too! Most of em are movies and some of em are OS copies of windows and Linux
I lost one of those between house moves, with many cds in it
Little me was devastated.
Honestly don't remember anyone using these for DVDs. They were for (MP3) CDs and burned PS1 games.
Burned Dreamcast games too! It had no copy protection, so you could just download Ikaruga or a bunch of NES or Gameboy ROMs and play them with no modifications.
The DC did have copy protection, it would've made no sense to release a disc-based console in the late 90s without it considering CD burners were becoming ubiquitous (some early CD-based consoles like Sega CD didn't have copy protection because nobody really had the means to write CDs at home). Sega believed their proprietary GD-ROM format would prevent piracy, but ironically it was another format called MIL-CD Sega introduced with the DC that allowed it to be exploited and cracked games to be run without the need to modify the console. Info here.
Am I remembering it wrong? I was huge on DCEmulation back in the early 2000s. Also I’m too lazy to read that link. I recall having to burn a weird music track… partition? To have my CD read. But I was able to play NEA/GB/SNES (with frameskip, unfortunately) and the only way my young broke butt could play Ikaruga was to pirate it and burn it to a CD.
DC copy protection was bypassed within months of the Western launch IIRC, so for most people who weren't really early adopters there might as well have been no copy protection. I'm not sure if this was the first ever copy protected console where you didn't need a physical mod to play CD-Rs, but it seems likely.
We have maybe 4 or 5 of these babies loaded with dvds and TV series. We basically lived so rural we couldn't stream for years at our old place. But we did have dvds and used these cases since we could haul them from the bedroom to the living room or basement depending what our plan was.
Now we're lucky enough to have starlink (yes, initiate the Musk circlejerk) and we still sometimes will go through the albums and watch dvds occasionally.
Actually I just started doing this and got a 7 DVD changer. Same as what I spend in a month for all these random streaming services.
i never cared for these, I feel like they scratched the discs faster than leaving them in the cases
