Comment by Fnoord

> "People would read the newspaper over the telephone," says MacDougall.

Copyright infringement. But nobody cared. That was the beauty of the Internet last century. The general public wasn't online (much), the impact of what happened on the Internet was limited. Even though 1on1 could be eavesdropped (like physical), nobody cares. Usually. And if they do, they will eavesdrop, that is still true nowadays (que NSO zero day reference), and probably justified (has to be within proportion of law).