Most of the time when a law sounds silly for banning something when alternatives exist, it's because people themselves are silly and don't actually go for the alternatives at the same rate as they would the banned thing. Ie gun accessory bans, ninja star bans.

[–] Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Where were you in the early 2000s? Lol

[–] M500@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don’t know anyone who didn’t do this.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Anecdotal evidence isn't evidence.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Anecdotal evidence is literally evidence of one (which disproves "zero" claims). Collections of anecdotal evidences make statistics making your dismissive statement dumb.

I'm adding to the pile. I can name literally over a dozen people in my childhood who copied Discs.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Start naming. Organize the names. And their experiences, and start collecting over time, if you wanna go that route. Because otherwise, you're just some random words in the ether.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 2 points 9 months ago

We are... you have 3 in front of you. Out of the probably 300-400 people who've looked at this thread you've seen 3 people answer affirmatively. You're watching it happen in real time!

[–] M500@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

nuh-uh

[–] mhague@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Burning CDs. That's how I know most people didn't know how to do it, or want to put in the effort. You had to go buy a stack of CDs, hope your computer supported burning, had to make sure players could support the burned disc (depending on if you made a music disc or data disc, if it was rewritable), and spend the time to burn the disc.

Contrast that to ctrl+c ctrl+v.

There's more people who can 'duplicate' digital files than there were people burning CDs.