Music Piracy: A Modern Thing?

[aimeeandbeatles]

That reminds of back when I had an atari800xl - which had a tape drive (no hd, no disk drive)

All my games came on tape and one day I thought to myself "I wonder what would happen if I copied the tape.. it's the exact same type of tape as an audio tape.. so it should work, right? maybe?" I will never forget the test run.. Me, and friend, and my parents, sat around the tape deck while it made funny beep boop bazoop type noises.. a half an hour later, we were in heaven. That is the day I became a pirate.

Once I accidentally popped a data cassette from my Commodore VIC-20 in the player instead of the audio cassette and nearly tore out my ears. (It sounds like one of those old phone-line modems.) I have a friend who claims you can blow up speakers if you're not careful.