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Originally Posted by Kirtai
Piracy was a foul crime involving, among other things, theft, murder, rape and kidnapping of people from vessels.
The term was later co-opted by certain media industries to refer to copyright infringement in a cynical attempt to transfer the revulsion towards the original crimes to the civil offence.
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You do realise that the use of the word "piracy" to refer to the unauthorised copying of literary works dates back over 400 years? It certainly isn't a modern coinage.