Hi I’m currently try to learn more about the history of piracy. I know that at some point I saved a very cool plain HTML website regarding that topic that was recommended here but I lost it :/ So now I hope you have cool sources. I’m only into the piracy since a couple of years so everything will be helpful.
It started way before that.
People copying books and sheet music. If you’re talking electronic, then I have “pirated” reel to reel music copied from records from the 60’s.
If you’re talking computers, I have floppy discs copied and passed around from the 80’s.
BBS’s existed in the 70’s and were sharing stuff before IRC became popular.
Heck, if humans can technically make a copy of it, no matter how difficult, we will and freely share it.