Canadian music pirates of 1897
This NYT article from 1897 about Canadian music piracy is awfully familiar sounding -- search-and-replace "Canadian" with "Swedish" and "post office" with "ISP" and you get...
The Long War: Music Piracy in 1897 (NYTimes)
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