• Big Baby Thor@sopuli.xyz
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    3 hours ago

    Halt, citizen!!

    You are found GUILTY of PIRACY!! You are mandated by libertarian law - and the honor system - to report to the Corporate Repayment Labour Camp for 40 years of indentured servitude!

    If you fail to report, a division of ICE run by a cloned Dog The Bounty Hunter will be dispatched, 10 years will be added to your sentence and at least 2 generations of your offspring will be mandated to pay Corporate Reparations and will forfeit all their intellectual property rights to the Mega Yachts for Emotionally Stunted Yuppies charity.

    You agreed to these terms when you were born and signed the license agreement by crying in the Pepsicola Maternity Ward.

    This sentencing brought to you by the Houston Payday Loan & Organ Brokerage firm. Problems paying rent? You don’t really need two kidneys. The option is on the table, and so is your kidney.

    • jambudz@lemmy.zip
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      9 hours ago

      Exactly. Like 1997 on, but fuck I was 3 when it came out. But they became popular around 2002 according to some variety article, and surpassed vhs in 2003. Wild the players were $800 when they first came out.

      • Magnum, P.I.@infosec.pub
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        DVD+R or RW was merely a research project in the late 90s - having those on the shelve is more like 2001-2003

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    1 day ago

    Serial experiments Lain, Strawberry Panic, Lovely Complex? I would say around 18 years ago, at least that’s when I was watching them.

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      DVDs didn’t have that issue, fortunately.

      In CDs, the recorded layer is directly under the label, in DVDs it’s mid-way through the thickness of the disc so there’s a layer of plastic between it and the label. A function of different wavelengths of light used to read them.

      Bit rot due to degradation of the organic chemicals in the recording layer is still very much a concern though.