No idea what books to recommend, but the concept of piracy is very old. That translated to the realm of home computers, pretty much when home computers were invented and software licensing became a thing. People would share floppy disks and cassettes. And then stuff got easier with modems and the internet.
hendrik
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This article is missing the point. Government should protect people's rights. This isn't a private matter. And companies are for-profit entities. They care for money. Less so for ethics and morality. And why is only sharing information with the government bad? Isn't the real issue how they collect all the data about everyone in the first place? Is sharing that with privately owned entities okay? Like other people, your health insurance company, targeted advertising companies, hackers? I hope not.
I'm not sure if this translates to the content creators. There's many of them whom I really like to watch who do (or did) Youtube as a business model. Tom Scott being one example or Derek Muller (Veritasium). I'm subscribed to many more. Simplicissimus and their yet better second channel (in German). We wouldn't have those without monetization. The platform of course went shit over time. Fortunately my Ad blocker still works and thanks to Sponsorblock my experience is fairly alright... But personally - I'm split on this question. We had quite the amount of entertainment before monetization but I think a large amount of quality content also arrived after that, and because of it. Those people would be working some office job today if it wasn't to Youtube. And I (and the world) would miss out.... On the other hand we got MrBeast, a lot of fake cooking videos...
Uh, that's definitely too much technobabble about funghi. Can you dumb that down a bit for me and describe it from a user's perspective? How do I use this? How do I get my favorite music in? And in what form does it return recommendations to me? Do I need friends to make this useful?
Nice. I guess that's about when I was born, so I only remember copying 3ยฝ-inch floppy disks for friends. And it was music on my cassettes. ๐ But I don't remember it being called piracy either. We had a lot of games, though. Monkey Island 2 and a nice collection of DOS games. None of them were bought in a store. And I remember struggling with the English language, some games were off the table since I didn't learn English until middle school.
I guess copying things lost some of the social aspect after that. We shared a lot of stuff in digital form after CD writers became affordable in the mid- to late 90s. But these days you'd sit alone in front of the computer and just download whatever. And pretty much everything is available. Or just connect a phone to the car and have arbitrary things to listen to. Instead of a fixed set of 3 pre-made casettes for the entire summer vacation road trip.