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History of Piracy (feddit.org)
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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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[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 5 points 9 hours ago

It started way before that.

People copying books and sheet music. If you're talking electronic, then I have "pirated" reel to reel music copied from records from the 60's.

If you're talking computers, I have floppy discs copied and passed around from the 80's.

BBS's existed in the 70's and were sharing stuff before IRC became popular.

Heck, if humans can technically make a copy of it, no matter how difficult, we will and freely share it.