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

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[–] brotundspiele 58 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Anon: 2007
The music industry ca. 1981:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

So we left side b blank so you can help!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Also the book piracy that existed in universities through photocopying and sharing pages.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

This is making a comeback with scanning.

Amazon was the place to buy manuals(art,hobby, do it yourself etc.). Now authors have pulled their books from print and expecting people to sign a subscription on patreon. Now there are sharks overpricing any remaining physical print second hand by 2000%.

pirates have scanned these books and selling access to uploaded jpgs for a fraction of what the manual would have cost had it just stayed in print.