A 1992 rap video about copy protection. If these kids used Open Source software, they would not have this problem. Warning this song will get stuck in your head.


Thanks to ubuntu-geek on the Ubuntu Forum for pointing it out to me

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8 Responses to “Don’t Copy That Floppy”

  1. Joshua Hesketh says:

    I love how at the end you can copy this video!

    But yeah, if these kids used FLOSS, they’d be fine :) .

  2. Tom Mann says:

    Good stuff – though I do like youtube linking to the IT crowd’s version of an anti-piracy ad… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTbX1aMajow

  3. asdf says:

    OMFG!!! That guy is scary

  4. Bob says:

    that is some pretty skilled copy protection (the video pops up by reading that kids mind)

  5. Joe Smith says:

    great. Now it’s stuck in my head. I’ll have to share it in my Data Structures class today. :)

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