No, really -- things don't change at all

[jducoeur]

Thanks to osewalrus for this link to a ruefully funny short article in the New York Times in 1897. As he summarizes it,

This NYT piece from 1897 tells how Canadian music pirates are flooding the sheet music market with cheap, pirated copies. The U.S. music industry recommends filtering the mail.

The article is well worth a read -- the parallels to current arguments run pretty deep...