First instance of intellectual property piracy?

Perhaps, but of course there are still significant differences.

To make these copies you needed a team of highly skilled scribes and their accoutrements, and the ship had to wait in port for several days.

That is to say, these copies in babylon would have come at a significant cost.

JFC. Sometimes people visit us with kids and it’s just arrive > open youtube > commence rot > spice it up 9yo twerking.

My partner is pregnant with our first child. I get the convenience of free child distraction, I also get that I might find myself doing exactly this in several years, but honestly I really hope I can find ways to at least minimise this. It just seems so Orwellian or… wall-e-ian.

I swear my kids are probably going to hate me because I’ll be the most boring dad around that forces kids to play outside instead of doing all the fun stuff.

I’m sure they only do this while “mummy is visiting” and it doesn’t happen at home.