• delirious_owl@discuss.online
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    5 months ago

    Loads of people don’t consider copying something and giving it to someone else as piracy. Only I’m very recent time has this been met with violence from well funded organizations.

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      5 months ago

      Because the internet has made it both easier to do, and to enforce.

      But it’s not a new thing at all, patents and copyrights have been enforced from pirates for well over a hundred years. This is from 1906