"Piracy’s preserving effect, while little known, is actually nothing new. Through the centuries, the tablets, scrolls, and books that people copied most often and distributed most widely survived to the present. Libraries everywhere would be devoid of Homer, Beowulf, and even The Bible without unauthorized duplication."
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https://www.technologizer.com/2012/01/23/why-history-needs-software-piracy/
"Purchased apps locked on iDevices will meet their doom when those gadgets stop working, as they are prone to do. Even before then, older apps will fade away as developers decline to pay the $100 a year required to keep their wares listed in the store."
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https://www.technologizer.com/2012/01/23/why-history-needs-software-piracy/2/
$100 a year to keep an app in the only store allowed on iThings!?!That's morally equivalent to mobsters charging "protection money".
