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Wikipedia refers to this 1736 dictionary page: https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_030pPyvwS9MC/page/n620/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_030pPyvwS9M
by mkl 3y ago
Wikipedia refers to this 1736 dictionary page: https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_030pPyvwS9MC/page/n620/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_030pPyvwS9MC/page/n620/mo...
No marketing PhDs involved, but it probably had the same intention behind it: equating copyright infringement with horrific lawless violence and theft to try to turn people against it.
- musicale 3y agoSince pirates were routinely hanged in the 18th century, presumably there was a desire to apply the same punishment for copyright infringement.