Hi I'm currently try to learn more about the history of piracy. I know that at some point I saved a very cool plain HTML website regarding that topic that was recommended here but I lost it :/ So now I hope you have cool sources. I'm only into the piracy since a couple of years so everything will be helpful.

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 6 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

No idea what books to recommend, but the concept of piracy is very old. That translated to the realm of home computers, pretty much when home computers were invented and software licensing became a thing. People would share floppy disks and cassettes. And then stuff got easier with modems and the internet.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 8 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

I'm so old that I used to use what we would call 'copied games' on cassettes in the early 80s.

It was so accepted that kids from rival schools would (temporarily) forget that shit just to trade copied games. It would be decades later that I would hear it called pirated software.

[–] slice@feddit.org 4 points 14 hours ago

Thats such a good story.

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