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Hi I'm currently try to learn more about the history of piracy. I know that at some point I saved a very cool plain HTML website regarding that topic that was recommended here but I lost it :/ So now I hope you have cool sources. I'm only into the piracy since a couple of years so everything will be helpful.

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[-] zzffyfajzkzhnsweqm@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

This is the same concept as copying books... Even rewriting by hand without the approval of the author could be considered piracy.

Books were always about the content and never about the paper. Same goes for digital media.

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

Now I'm thinking about all of the books (particularly The Bible) ~~pirated~~ transcribed in monasteries during the Middle Ages.

[-] zzffyfajzkzhnsweqm@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

I wonder how often books were actually stolen from ships by pirates.

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I don't know, but apparently one major reason the US wasn't the second country to adopt the metric system is that the ship carrying the measuring equipment for Congress to assess was attacked by pirates