I wish I posted this to /c/me_irl, I wouldn't have had to think about a title (lemmy.ml)
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Government officials look on as pirated publications, including DVDs, CDs, etc., are placed on the ground before being destroyed during a campaign against piracy in Taiyuan, Shanxi province on April 20, 2015. (picture Reuters/Jon Woo)
Lionel Mapleson was the Metropolitan Operaʼs librarian from the 1890s until he died in 1937. In 1900, he purchased an Edison “Home” Cylinder Phonograph, smuggled the gadget into the prompter’s box, and started recording excerpts from Metropolitan performances. In 1904, Mapleson’s piratical activities came to an end, but...