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Conflating piracy with copying music is fragrantly disingenuous. Pirating is the theft of someone else's goods by force. Music "piracy" is the circumvention o
by jcoffland 8y ago
Conflating piracy with copying music is fragrantly disingenuous. Pirating is the theft of someone else's goods by force. Music "piracy" is the circumvention of artificial scarcity to duplicate information and it leaves the original property intact. It was a clever con getting us to use the same word.
- EpicEng 8y agoMeaning changes over time. Most of us have accepted a new, alternate definition of "piracy" in regards to digital media. Whether or not you (or I, because I don't either) like it is irrelevant.
- jcoffland 8y agoI'm for making language mean what we want it to mean and I oppose the use of the word piracy to mean copying. Is that not how language changes?
- EpicEng 8y agoWell, yes, but a word means whatever the majority believes it to mean. You're in the minority, so... I get that it's a tactic used by the business end of things, but it's where we're at now.