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I don't understand the irony. I've already said I don't care about piracy in itself and that I am a huge pirate myself.

• dsr_ 9y ago
  It's not irony, it's naming. If you name copyright violation as piracy, you associate murder and theft and rape and kidnapping with unauthorized copying. Don't be a pirate. If you have to be, be an unauthorized copier. In the meantime, think about whether you want to use carrot strategies or stick strategies.
  • ttoinou 9y ago
    If you name copyright violation as piracy We pirates embrace that term, don't we ? Sorry if that word originally conveys the violence associated with theses marginals groups
  • eCa 9y ago
    > If you name copyright violation as piracy [...] I think that ship has sailed.
    • xiaoma 9y ago
      I'm not going to use a term the MPAA/RIAA co-opted and pushed into our language, despite the success of their marketing efforts over the last few decades. If you want to equate murder, rape and plundering from and often enslaving strangers with the concept of unauthorized copying, then that's your prerogative. I won't judge, but I'll still call it either unauthorized copying or just sharing.
      • eCa 9y ago
        > If you want to equate murder, rape and plundering from and often enslaving strangers with the concept of unauthorized copying, then that's your prerogative. I certainly don't equate those things. But words have different meanings in different contexts. One of my favourite games from way back when was Sid Meier's Pirates!, so I might be coloured by that. And yes, it was pirated.