Machines like the Amiga and the Commodore 64 had an international network, through which software not available on one continent would eventually make its way to every region via bulletin board systems. It was also quite common in the 1980s to use physical floppy disks and the postal service for spreading software, in an activity known as mail trading.
In the early 1990s, warez were often traded on cassette tapes with different groups and published on bulletin boards that had a warez section. ===Rise of software infringement=== Unauthorized copying has been an ongoing phenomenon that started when high quality, commercially produced software was released for sale.
However, until the early 1990s, software copyright infringement was not yet considered a serious problem by most people.
Unlike the music industry, which has had online music stores available for several years, the movie industry moved to online distribution only in 2006, after the launch of Amazon Unbox. Because of this, cameras are sometimes forbidden in movie theaters. ==File formats== A CD software release can contain up to 700 megabytes of data, which presented challenges when sending over the Internet, particularly in the late 1990s when broadband was unavailable to most home consumers.
In 1992, the Software Publishers Association began to battle against this phenomenon, with its promotional video "Don't Copy That Floppy".
Around 1997, broadband began to gain popularity due to its greatly increased network speeds.
At that time, the largest copyright violation threat was software. However, along with the rise in broadband internet connections beginning around 1998, higher quality movies began to see widespread distribution – with the release of DeCSS, ISO images copied directly from the original DVDs were slowly becoming a feasible distribution method.
Unlike the music industry, which has had online music stores available for several years, the movie industry moved to online distribution only in 2006, after the launch of Amazon Unbox. Because of this, cameras are sometimes forbidden in movie theaters. ==File formats== A CD software release can contain up to 700 megabytes of data, which presented challenges when sending over the Internet, particularly in the late 1990s when broadband was unavailable to most home consumers.
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