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> we'd have a copy and not that the source would lose it in the process

I don't known when this happened, but maybe that means the Anti-Piracy campaigns worked on him, confusing illegal replication with theft.



That's a good guess, but tbh this was in the days of modems, bbses, and shareware. Piracy and anti-piracy campaigns weren't really common outside of the software world back then.




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