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Originally Posted by fjtorres
That is pretty much how software piracy started: back in the early 80's pirate sites were dial-up bulletin boards accessible only by those who got the phone number and password from the operator and/or an existing member. You had to know somebody who knew somebody.
And the "price" of download rights was uploads, usually measured in bytes worth of content.
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I did my first illicit donwload in 1984, recording on a tape a Commodore64 game which was transmitted as a modulated whistle by an FM radio station...
can you think a broader pre-internet piracy casting?
