[d_k_f]

This article about software piracy in Italy in the 80s and 90s was linked here some time ago: https://genesistemple.com/a-swashbuckling-tale-of-italian-so... – seems to be very similar to your story in Portugal.

I don't think it was that extreme here in Germany, but I do recall my father coming home various times throughout the years with cases containing ~20-50 3.5" floppy disks for our Atari STs that were either completely unlabeled or with hand-written or home-printed labels. Always interesting finding out how to start each game and looking at the colourful intros.

[pjmlp]

Yep, exactly the same kind of stuff.

By the way there is a movie that touches this, but from movie industry side.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_by_Erry

Back in the 8 bit days, the dream of each teenager was to get a double deck tape recorder, at least for those on Speccy side.

Years later on the Amiga, X-Copy was a must have.