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The term "piracy" was used on the news when I was a kid in the 1950s from time to time to refer to people caught selling illegally printed books. I didn't see that on the news often but there were a couple of times when fairly large scale arrests were made and they made the news. I suspect I'd heard the term used before that because I knew just what they were describing.
Later, in the days before MP3 and before ebooks, piracy referred to the illegal copying of software. It was the common term in tech journals and whenever it made the news. Programmers often discussed the possibility of piracy.
I think it was natural, when MP3 and ebooks came along, to use the same term to describe the same activity.
Barry
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