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Originally Posted by barryem
Actually the term "pirate" was used in this way long before there was digital media and an RIAA and MPAA involvement. I first heard the term with regard to selling copied cassette tapes sometime around 1960 or 1970. And I don't think it was a new term even then.
Barry
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The term "piracy" has been used in association with illegal copying of books for over 400 years. Its first recorded use in this context was by the English author Thomas Dekker who, in the introduction to his 1603 book, "The Wonderful Yeare", said:
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Banish these Word-pirates, (you sacred mistresses of learning) 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 (and thanke Apollo for it too) if hereafter (as hitherto they haue alwayes) they may quench their poeticall thirst with small beere.
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which is a sentiment that I'm sure we can all share.