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Originally Posted by pwalker8
You have a different definition of piracy that I do. The term piracy was hijacked by the music and movie industry since it has a much more negative connotation than copyright violation. People redefine words a lot for rhetorical purposes, that doesn't mean that I have to accept their redefinition.
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Publishing books without considering another publishers claims to copyright was called piracy back before the copyright had anything to do with author's rights at a time when recorded audiovisual material didn't exist. The book
Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates goes into detail on the past history of what was then as now called piracy (at least by book publishers who felt ill done by).
[Caveat: when I bought the ebook in 2015 the OCR was poorly proofread, a brief check today shows that footnotes are still not hyperlinked and the style does not make for a easy read]