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Anon gives a piracy history lesson (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 13 hours ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Godort@lemm.ee 77 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (6 children)

Try the 70s.

That was when VHS and cassette tapes started to hit the market and there was no copy protection on those. Following that, people copied floppy disks enough that they had to make that "dont copy that floppy" jingle.

There was a brief period with the switch to digital and CDROMs where piracy stopped, but then CD burners hit the market and it started again.

[–] Rooskie91 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Does this make Marion Stokes this most prolific pirate of all time?

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 5 points 12 hours ago

sony v universal still stands, afaik. fair use.

even at that scale, she did it privately for non-commercial purposes.

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