• stoly@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    It started with a Tori Amos lyric about someone burning CDs. I couldn’t imagine why you’d destroy valuable property lol. The term was used originally in industry and later adopted for home use.

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        10 months ago

        In 1993, computers were just starting to get CD-ROM drives and CD-Rs were pretty exotic technology. Being able to burn CD’s really didn’t really go mainstream until the very late 90’s.

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          10 months ago

          The Sega MegaCD didn’t have any copy protection because people couldn’t burn their own CDs yet.