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Valve's DRM was inspired by an exec's nephew, who 'used a $500 check I'd sent him for school expenses and bought himself a CD-ROM replicator… he sent me a lovely thank you note' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

CDs absolutely influenced the scale and speed of it. And it was a generational shift that went from piracy being something that wasn't well understood and mostly a niche issue for music and movie lovers ("home taping is killing music") to something that impacted all types of media.

[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

MP3's sped up copying of music. As for games though, they increased in size because of CD's so that countered any speed up.

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