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Re:LaLiga's Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Intern... by qingcharles on Sunday September 21, 2025 @05:57PM (#45327046)
I probably could have worded it clearer. I meant computers + copyright. As in there was no copyright on computer software.
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Re:LaLiga's Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Intern... by AshamedCaptain on Sunday September 21, 2025 @06:55PM (#45327409)
It is not just bad wording. This is still a questionable remark that smells of wrong assumptions about southern EU (and thus gets people irritated).
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Re:LaLiga's Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Intern... by tecleandor on Monday September 22, 2025 @05:00AM (#45330802)
Still false. There were already police raids for 'pirate' games in the 80s.

Example, July 1986 [0]: "Nine Madrid university students involved in a thriving pirated video game business"

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  0: https://www.abc.es/archivo/periodicos/abc-sevilla-19860718-40.html
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