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Before 1950, if you wanted a I.P. product, an analog copy had to be made in a factory. To make a mass illicit copy of it, you had to have a factory.
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Not completely true. Consumer wire recorders were around before magnetic tape. I was listening to an old jazz musician on NPR and he was telling about making wire recording's of "Bird" from the radio and learning new riffs before anyone else in town had heard them.