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Anon gives a piracy history lesson (lemmy.nz)

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[-] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 month ago

He skipped over LUSERnet and LimeWire, which was before 2007. Usenet was a big sharing community too before 2007.

Piracy has always been around. It's the underhand method of getting what someone wants. Empires didn't mint coins because it was fun, but they needed to identify forgeries. Also, scales were used (and people would use lead) to trick it instead of coin.

[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

I don't mean to draw attention to it but Usenet never went away, it's still the best place to find a lot of interesting articles in my opinion.

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