How Long Have You Been Pirating Software

**CableMan391** · 07-02-2006, 09:59 PM

Started by copying software on floppies and cd's with my windows 95.

**Gish** · 07-03-2006, 01:34 AM

Too long

**chicksy** · 07-04-2006, 02:00 AM

Originally Posted by CableMan391

Started by copying software on floppies and cd's with my windows 95.

the same here

**ApocStorm** · 07-05-2006, 11:08 PM

First thing I pirated was one of those huge 5.25 inch floppy disk.

**sear** · 07-06-2006, 04:01 AM

I voted 3-4 years since I got the internet but thinking back I can remeber coppying games on floppies from my school computer lab in year 5 to play at home so that's like 17 years...

**justinius23** · 07-06-2006, 03:01 PM

^much the same as sear. i voted 6 months as i only got the internet in recently

but i have been copying games since i got an amstrad cpc 464 (green screen) for christmas like 15 years ago or something...

**klumsy** · 07-07-2006, 05:57 AM

remember when copy protection only involved keying in phrases from the game manuals

?

**charlie1515** · 07-11-2006, 04:57 AM

i'm very new too all of this and it's cool to hear a lot of the older pirates stories.

**backlash** · 07-11-2006, 12:38 PM

I'd have to say 10 or so years, though at the time it was probably just the OS. They had those 8" floppies when I was in Elementary School. That was my first intro to computers. I didn't start getting my own stuff via the internet until I had to reinstall my OS and didn't have the programs I had before. When someone told me to look for a serial or crack or something I took the plunge. That was probably going back 4-5 years ago.

I haven't looked back since.