DEF CON 18 - Jason Scott - You're Stealing It Wrong! 30 Years of Inter-Pirate Battles

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Jason Scott - You're Stealing It Wrong! 30 Years of Inter-Pirate Battles
Historian Jason Scott walks through the many-years story of software piracy and touches on the tired debates before going into a completely different direction - the interesting, informative, hilarious and occasionally obscene world of inter-pirate-group battles. A multi-media extravaganza of threats, CSI-level accusations and evidence trails, decades of insider lingo, and demonstrations of how the more things change, the more they still have to keep their ratios up.
Jason Scott is a computer historian and proprietor of TEXTFILES.COM, a collection of computer history. This is a pretty good pairing, actually. He also creates documentaries on computer history and attends and speaks at conventions like DEFCON, making computer history. If you see him at DEFCON the choice is clear: talk to him about his cat.
For copies of the slides and additional materials please see the DEF CON 18 Archive here: defcon.org/html/links/dc-arch...

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@hi-friaudioman 8 ай бұрын

Im watching this video almost 10 years after it was made. Thanks to defcon for posting it and thanks to KZfaq for actually keeping it up and not censoring it... yet. Oh my, have times changed. These videos are like little time capsules and im so happy to have them here.

@douro20 5 жыл бұрын

The piracy detector van is a nod to the BBC's "television detector van" which doesn't even exist but whose details are still an Official Secret...

@vylbird8014 3 жыл бұрын

They existed. The BBC just hugely exaggerated the scale of their use in order to scare people into compliance.

@McGavel1 9 жыл бұрын

Cool point about how "asking for Priscilla" might actually be a way to see which things people are reading.

@saint92wtl 8 жыл бұрын

really enjoying the way Jason speaks. His facts are super interesting and so relevant to understanding where we are at today.

@KevinBeee 3 жыл бұрын

I have a copy of the "pirate notices" collection referenced at the end of the talk, and it's quite an entertaining dive to go through. Would love to see a talk dedicated just to that.

@oyaworks 3 жыл бұрын

is there any way to still obtain it? i'd love to dig through it myself :)

@douro20 5 жыл бұрын

That was close to $30,000 in PC AT systems in that picture at 42:38

@Glitch-Gremlin Ай бұрын

"We're on a Small boat in a world of shit... and there's a leak" LOL

@paulimbacana 2 жыл бұрын

i saw the meme 22:29 and i couldn't stop laughing - not only because i found it funny - but because i realized that back in the day it was funny, and a few years later it wasn't anymore, and recently it came back to being funny for different reasons.

@thewhitefalcon8539 8 ай бұрын

another now irrelevant meme at 36:50

@McGavel1 9 жыл бұрын

Lmao - I love the "[graduate of] Wikipedia" shirt!

@McGavel1 9 жыл бұрын

Jason, you have a good spirit - keep up the good work and thanks!

@goldfish8196 4 ай бұрын

What an awesome guy

@douro20 5 жыл бұрын

Nice custom font on the Silicon Warrior farewell page...I wonder how hard that was to implement...

@kblake5466 6 жыл бұрын

Jason Scott is like the Serj Tankian of the software industry, lmao

@johnmchugh8049 3 жыл бұрын

I really dig his talks !

@Sauceyjames 8 ай бұрын

Was not expecting some of these photos 😅

@sentry4944 7 жыл бұрын

You wouldn't download a car...

@fatheragnostus 5 жыл бұрын

but what about a car crash?

@Electrk 2 жыл бұрын

yes i would

@FalcoGer Жыл бұрын

if your service is worse than what pirates get, then people will pirate. The solution isn't anti piracy measures or yet more anti consumer crap, but better services. Take yt premium. You can 'download' videos, but still need internet to ask for permission to play it. Or ubisoft's allways online bs even for singleplayer games. Or apple's everything. I don't deal with those companies anymore or use adblockers and download whatever I want to watch offline in a normal video format that I can play whenever. I'd pay if I got value and not be treated like scum.

@McGavel1 9 жыл бұрын

Wow, crazy point about how IBM used to let people use computers others had purchased - lol.

@Ozai36regno Жыл бұрын

Glad to see someone has a similar idea and been able to really put it into flourishen

@omegadroidzero 6 ай бұрын

fruition?

@Ozai36regno 6 ай бұрын

@@omegadroidzero thanks lol. Probably baked like a cake when i posted that.

@LakeVermilionDreams 4 жыл бұрын

NSFW IMages FYI If you're at work, there's some nudity here. Just warning!

@bigspiderman217 7 жыл бұрын

Hey Jason Scott! Who said "It is not our job to define what the future finds fascinating."? I don't want to get sued for two billion dollars. Just kidding only curious. I couldn't find it. Seem very prophetic and extremely correct.

@Epinardscaramel 3 жыл бұрын

I love this video and keep coming back to it, but to this day I don’t understand why at 1:39 people laugh at the destruction of a country :o

@OTheFool 3 жыл бұрын

It sounds more like the nervous laughter you get when you realize things have gone horribly wrong.

@Epinardscaramel 3 жыл бұрын

@@OTheFool I hope.

@jasonscott526 2 жыл бұрын

I think it was shock.

@sarahmanalapan8443 Жыл бұрын

Lets hope the above comments are right, i thoughtthe same thing.

@ujin981 Жыл бұрын

@@OTheFool the problem is that things have gone horribly *right* - for the US that is.

@chupathingy5862 2 жыл бұрын

Can we hire someone to just follow him with a recorder?

@jasonscott526 Жыл бұрын

I mean, I do have a podcast.

@notnow9491 Жыл бұрын

@@jasonscott526 haha damn you r really checking the comments after so many years, you are truly the archiver, keep it up

@jasonscott526 Жыл бұрын

@@notnow9491 I'm here to help

@McGavel1 9 жыл бұрын

As I watch you start to explain software and piracy, I can't help but wonder why it is that all libraries have copying machines. The irony is too much for me to remain laughing while not on the floor.

@damienmerrylees5595 7 жыл бұрын

you can copy/archive anything for educational purposes. The entire thing.

@Ghi102 Жыл бұрын

it's also much longer to copy an entire book, might be better to work instead and buy the book then copy it for free

@snakepitskeleton4193 3 жыл бұрын

DIVE DIVE DIVE, HIT YOUR BURNERS PILOT

@azzajohnson2123 3 жыл бұрын

is it me or is the audio a bit fucky?

@jasonscott526 2 жыл бұрын

It absolutely was.

@wompastompa3692 7 ай бұрын

"Part of being a historian is that you quickly learn to become a hater of all things, and you realize we're on a small boat in a world of shit and there's a leak."

@eurosat7 6 жыл бұрын

40:37 KARIN & MIRJAM VAN BREESCHOOTEN

@Inus 4 жыл бұрын

who knows spiral tracking? .. i'm not going in to that .... but spiral tracking is .. lol he does this a lot :D

@johanneswerner1140 10 ай бұрын

This is called "praeteritio" (passing along). Has been around for a few millenia (ok, two at least).

@pacman10182 8 ай бұрын

the french save everything

@bestlobjagamer348 2 жыл бұрын

y0 can someone crack a game for me

@Generalram1968 6 жыл бұрын

Who needs to pirate anything with Free Software out there like GNU/Linux to use instead of Windows, or Firefox or Google Chrome to use instead of Internet Explorer and Edge?

@yanikkunitsin1466 2 жыл бұрын

Because it useless ugly and buggy amateurish garbage most of the time. Software is just a tool, and you don't wan't skimp on it if it's a tool of your trade. And even if there is a lot people behind some Open Source project it doesn't make competetive or good for end user. GIMP and OpenOffice will never reach quality and usabilty of Photoshop and Microsoft Office(even though it's bloated and almost unsable as it is, it's still better than crooked and buggy OO)