Ah, yes, the ZX Spectrum arcade games and text adventures from the 80's in Spain, 'fairly recent'.

https://base.speccy.org/ProyectoBASE_Historia.html

The parent comment confuses Spain and Italy as if they were the same... as if Spain didn't had French and UK influences from the North at all since the 1600's and before... yeah sure.

Spain had and has picaresca as the Italians, of course... but we aren't 100% the same and it shows off. We used to buy legal games in the 80's because the prices plumetted down because of the piracy, and between the shaddy game loaders and having to wait 15 minutes per load, everyone wanted at least to buy one or two original games in order to play something without losing literal hours trying to tweak the casette player.

Italy in the meanwhile just resold foreing games as if they were local. Some Spaniards did the same too; but it had small powerhouses as Aventuras AD, Erbe Software and such, not just a few by any means.

I probably could have worded it clearer. I meant computers + copyright. As in there was no copyright on computer software.

It is not just bad wording. This is still a questionable remark that smells of wrong assumptions about southern EU (and thus gets people irritated).

Still false. There were already police raids for 'pirate' games in the 80s.

Example, July 1986 [0]: "Nine Madrid university students involved in a thriving pirated video game business"

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  0: https://www.abc.es/archivo/periodicos/abc-sevilla-19860718-40.html