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by sandworm101 3085 days ago
Anyone who thinks napster was the dawn of online piracy either wasn't alive or didn't own a computer in the 90s.
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90s? There was "online" piracy and organised piracy groups through BBS systems in the 80s!
Yarr. In me day, "piracy" didn't involve computers and had actual pirates, Matey.
Yep I remember going through a list of phone numbers printed on a dot matrix printer, asking for ‘elite’ access back in the 80s.