They operate under the banner of "Abandonware" —the belief that if a company refuses to sell you a product (like a 1998 PC game or a out-of-print novel), you have the moral right to preserve it.
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In the golden age of sail, a pirate’s greatest weapon wasn’t the cutlass or the cannon. It was information. A single piece of frayed parchment, smudged with salt water and coded in hasty script, could mean the difference between a fat, unguarded galleon and a hanging from the yardarm of a man-o’-war.
