Mises Daily
Author:
Neil McCaffrey Jr.
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I am sitting here breaking the law, sort of. I’m listening to a bootleg recording of Benny Goodman playing in the Manhattan Room of New York’s old Hotel Pennsylvania on October 1937. How come I don’t feel guilty? As the record business boomed in the 1960s, record piracy boomed right along with it. It’s no great trick to pirate a record, and even