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It's funny because if it weren't for the pirates there'd be no innovation and new distribution means or it would be extremely slow. Hollywood and the music industry had become so stagnant, that it took pirates to get them to change their idea of distribution, I think.


Even more funny, for the fact that Hollywood was originally built in order to pirate Edison's patents... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Patents_Company...




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