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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was the first thing "pirated" on the net? What was the first thing to be pirated off the net in the modern age?⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  So do you claim that this is the earliest form of digital piracy? Because it’s not really piracy until you share the ripped files, and you say that people were “swapping them with others after floppy disks were a thing”.

  You are clearly mixing up the timeline here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was the first thing "pirated" on the net? What was the first thing to be pirated off the net in the modern age?⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You can fit a single heavily compressed mp3 song on a “modern” 1.44 MB floppy. Floppies had much less capacity back then, and mp3 wasn’t invented, so the idea that people would be passing around ripped vinyl music on floppies makes absolutely no sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was the first thing "pirated" on the net? What was the first thing to be pirated off the net in the modern age?⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Music records were the first digital thing to have ever been pirated, period (even before the net existed).

  That doesn’t sound right. What are you referring to? Digital music piracy wasn’t really feasible before the mid nineties, but people were swapping home pc games and apps on tapes and floppies in the eighties. I’m sure there are other, older examples of software piracy as well.