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Originally Posted by Shaggy
Who are the ones that started pushing the terminology "piracy" to refer to copyright infringement. The industry or the file sharers. That'll give you your answer as to which image was being sought.
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The file sharers, I believe.
The term "piracy" to refer to something that's unauthorised goes back a long time, at least 50-odd years to the days of "pirate radio stations" in the late 1950s. Did you have those in the US? Here in Europe, they were ships which anchored in international waters, and broadcast pop music, without getting permission from the countries to which they were broadcasting to use the radio frequencies in that way. Hence the "nautical connection".