alt Hacker News2005 piracy had little to do to with making art accessible. For the most part it seemed more like getting for free the digital things we couldn't pay or and/or felt entitled to, with many justifications layered on top.
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gzread • yesterday at 12:42 PM
that's the same thing?
cmiles74 • yesterday at 2:44 PM
It wedged distribution away from record companies. IMHO, that was a pretty big concern for them.
And in 2004 you had a tape deck with two bays meant for copying and none of your tapes or cds were real. You’d make copies from other people or even the radio or TV. People forget how piracy was actually the norm before the digital age attempted to crack down on it. Even just passing a book you enjoyed to a friend to read, can you even do that with ebook DRM?