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0 pointsblowski3y ago0 comments

Feel free to call it whatever you want. I will call it piracy because most people do.

EDIT: Interestingly, the first recorded usage of "pirate" to imply copyright infringement is from 1913, talking about "pirate broadcasts".

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kgwgk3y ago· 2 in thread

Pirate publishers were a thing well before that:

blowskiOP3y ago

Wow! I took the 1913 date from the Etymology dictionary, so I'm surprised it goes back another 100 years before that.

kgwgk3y ago

It goes back even more, it predates copyright.

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