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I remember a friend being confused by downloading. He didn't realize that meant we'd have a copy and not that the source would lose it in the process.

It seemed bizarre at the time, but, tbh, I didn't have _that_ much better of a model of how the whole process worked.

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Bit of a tangent, I asked a friend if I could rip and burn one of his CDs about 15 years ago, and he looked at me in horror and told me that I absolutely could not, because he liked that disc.

It took me a bit to realize what he understood my words to mean.

> we'd have a copy and not that the source would lose it in the process

I don't known when this happened, but maybe that means the Anti-Piracy campaigns worked on him, confusing illegal replication with theft.

That's a good guess, but tbh this was in the days of modems, bbses, and shareware. Piracy and anti-piracy campaigns weren't really common outside of the software world back then.

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