This comment reminds me of book pirates stealing books from England [1] and publishing them in the US (which the English had been previously doing to the French

This comment reminds me of book pirates stealing books from England [1] and publishing them in the US (which the English had been previously doing to the French): > Some (U.S. publishers) sent agents to England with orders to grab volumes from bookstalls... and ship them west by fast packet. Copy was then rushed from the dock to the composing room, presses run night and day, and books hurried to the stores or hawked in the streets like hot corn. One of the most successful pirates was the company that eventually became HarperCollins, now owned by News Corp. [1] http://www.cnet.com/news/how-piracy-built-the-u-s-publishing-industry/ http://www.cnet.com/news/how-piracy-built-the-u-s-publishing...