Screenshot with illustration of judge with caption "the defendant is guilty of the crime of SOFTWARE PIRACY"

Notices where this attachment appears

1. 4am ❧ (a2_4am@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2024 07:09:21 JST 4am ❧

   "The Cave of Time" (©1985 Bantam Publishing) has a custom copy protection that displays this screen on boot when it detects an unauthorized copy.

   That, in itself, is objectively hilarious. But even better, this screen is from a completely different game from a different publisher ("Crime and Punishment, ©1984 Imagic), potentially making it a copyright violation on its own.

   Rules for thee but not for me.

   #AppleII #retrocomputing