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In the 80's, rural America was copying cassettes for video and music at home. You could go to flea markets and buy copied products but many homes had tech to record/duplicate.

And then it got wild with cheap media for CD-ROM and DVD duplication just as Napster and other services along with the proliferation of internet connectivity.

In elementary school we made and traded mix tapes of songs from the radio. We rarely traded duped video cassettes.

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When I grew up in the 80s, every movie we ever had was a VHS copy from a friend. Along with every cassette tape and all the Commodore 64 software. I remember the day my old man’s cool friend stopped by and handed me a box of about 100 5.25” floppy disks full of games and software.

I didn’t learn until I was practically an adult that some silly people actually bought movies and software. Now it’s the norm.

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