The History of Anti-Piracy

In the early days of cinema, people would pirate films basically by just taking an entire film and cutting in a bit of new material. Terry Pratchett told us this thing about in German translated versions of his books. He said someone would write to him from Germany saying they've placed adverts in your book. So while the characters from his Discworld novels are running around, they suddenly stop because they were quite parched. They'd crack open a Coca-Cola or make some magic two-minute noodles before carrying on with what he had written. It reminded me that in China, there's a lot of a similar thing where they take existing text or footage, but in this case text