Think that this issue of stealing music is a modern problem? Let me read you something.
“‘Canadian pirates’ are what the music dealers call publishing houses across the line who are flooding this country, they say, with spurious editions of the latest copyrighted popular songs. They use the mails to reach purchasers…and as a result, the legitimate music publishing business of the United States has fallen off 50% in the last twelve months.”
That’s a quote from a New York Times article on the problem of counterfeit sheet music sales published 112 years ago this month. Substitute “BitTorrent” for “pirates” and “P2P” for “the mails” and you have exactly what happened a hundred years later.
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