I was reading a book which was essentially the memories of some BBS nerd from the 80s (i do not remember the name, sadly) and he basically quoted a magazine pos

I was reading a book which was essentially the memories of some BBS nerd from the 80s (i do not remember the name, sadly) and he basically quoted a magazine post from around back then - the 9 out of 10 piracy was a thing even in the 80s, more than a decade before Doom. It doesn't surprise me that it would be the same 10 and 20 years after it.