Is Piracy the Last Hope of Preservation?

Shane R. Monroe
7 min readMay 1, 2020

Remember the PSA “Don’t Copy That Floppy!”? Thanks to those that did, we still have access to tens of thousands of games and applications from the past that we may never have seen again. That isn’t where it ends …

Don’t Copy That Floppy was an anti–copyright infringement propaganda campaign run by the Software Publishers Association beginning in 1992.

Since the beginning of the home video gaming revolution in the 1970s and 1980s — there has been a war being fought every single day.

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Shane R. Monroe

I write, blog, record and review anything that interests me — including humanity, parenting, gizmos & gadgets, video games and media.