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For decades, U.S. was major copyright pirate | Media Maverick - CNET News: 'one of the most lucrative revenue streams for U.S. publishers during this period involved grabbing copies of British books and racing to duplicate them before rivals. Authors weren't compensated a dime, say Burrows and Wallace. But don't feel too bad for the British publishers as they had done the same to French authors.
From the book: "Some (U.S. publishers) sent agents to England with orders to grab volumes from bookstalls... and ship them west by fast packet. Copy was then rushed from the dock to the composing room, presses run night and day, and books hurried to the stores or hawked in the streets like hot corn."
According to Burrows and Wallace, one of the most successful pirates was a company that eventually became HarperCollins, now owned by News Corp.'
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