It’s clearly a CD-R*; just burn another copy…
* I can tell from the color and burning quite a few CD-Rs in my time…
You’re clearly missing the joke.
*I can tell because you almost said aCHuAlLy and tried to tell people something detailed but off topic.
You go to pick up the CD from your friend’s place.
“Hey the CD is not in it’s case”
Your friend looks around their room, finds it on the carpeted floor next to their bed.
“Oh here it is” … it’s got sauce on it and he cleans it off by wiping it on their jeans … “here, thanks man”
he cleans it off by wiping it on their jeans
In a circular motion even though you explained the center out is the better option.
I made quite a bit of money off people in my HS parking lot with one of those disk doctors.
I had no idea something like this existed but it is something that I would have been into.
That’s why to keep a backup, as is your legal right.
Unless the source contains some sort of DRM and you’re a citizen of the USA. In that case, your rights were stolen from you by the DMCA.
Only if your backup (or restore) process circumvents the DRM. But, yes, fuck the DMCA.
On that subject, copyright is a broken system, and I don’t think anyone should feel compelled to participate in it anymore. You should try to compensate creators, but copyright theft is just the norm for corporations now (not just LLMs either, legal fictions have let Disney justify not paying on some of their licenses) so you do you.
I don’t think anyone should feel compelled to participate in it anymore
Oh, was i supposed to feel that way at some point? Whoops!
You say that like a lot of us care lol. I choose to interpret DRM as disco rave music.
Nah, just adding color to the discussion. I run a 7-bay NAS that I built myself (3D printed case). I’m definitely not too concerned about respecting DRM/DMCA, but I don’t like having my legal rights stripped from me by some back door shenanigans.
This is why I refused my mom lending out my dvd. She get mad, forgetting she taught me not loan out your stuff. She had huge VHS collection and now and then someone would borrow one and never return it.
But yes don’t loan out your games either.
I’m a 40-something year old man now but your comment gave me flashbacks to my childhood stuff getting destroyed by the kids of my mother’s friends, who she would just let “borrow” my shit.
I still don’t know who ended up with my Game Boy and all my games. And I’m still salty, half an eternity later.
I’m hesitant to even loan books out to people, I really don’t want dog ears or page 46-47 stuck together with ranch dressing or ranch dressing.
Just slap some toothpaste on that sucker and it’ll be good as new.
