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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian
So "piracy" was used in that sense between 1886 and 1906?
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Oh no, the usage goes back much, much further. Eg, Thomas Dekker, in the introduction to a book called "The Wonderfull Yeare", published in 1603, writes:
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Banish these Word-pirates... into the gulfe of Barbarisme: doome them euerlastingly to liue among dunces: let them not once lick their lips at the Thespian bowle, but onely be glad ... if hereafter (as hitherto they haue alwayes) they may quench their poeticall thirst with small beere.
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The term "pirate" to describe those who copy and publish works without authorisation has a history almost as long as the history of printing.