Like it or not, neither modern media nor the MPAA introduced this usage of piracy. It has been around and part of legal discussion about intellectual property s

Like it or not, neither modern media nor the MPAA introduced this usage of piracy. It has been around and part of legal discussion about intellectual property since the 1800s: "I know patentees are much troubled with piracies upon their inventions" (Irwin v. McRoberts 1879) "he has a just defence, and is not a willful pirate of the plaintiff’s invention" (Goodyear v. Dunbar 1860) and so on...