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Yeah, they do that to a lot of people, not just Apple: http://thepiratebay.se/legal http://thepiratebay.se/legal The Apple exchange doesn't appear to be a part

by chao- 14y ago

Yeah, they do that to a lot of people, not just Apple: http://thepiratebay.se/legal http://thepiratebay.se/legal The Apple exchange doesn't appear to be a particularly notable standout, really. Gr8pop Ltd is far more amusing because there is some back-and-forth, but still there's not much to see beyond profanity and entertainment value (depending on your viewpoint).

raganwald 14y ago
The notable things about this is the irony. When Steve Jobs was running the Macintosh team, he put up a pirate flag to signal their defiance of the status quo as he went about disrupting Apple itself (a company making its money off the Apple // and investing in the bloated and expensive Lisa). http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Pirate_Flag.txt http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
- weiran 14y ago
  I don't see any irony at all. The only similarity with those stories is the word "pirate".
  - raganwald 14y ago
    At the time, Jobs had been pushed out of all of his operating/management roles by the professionals running the company. he latched onto Jef Raskin's Macintosh project and remade it in his own vision. He moved the entire team out of Apple's offices so that they could work without interference from the powers-that-be, who would have blocked his efforts once they realized how much his new "inexpensive" computer would compete with their existing push to sell a $10,000+ Lisa. Macintosh was very much a big "F.U." to the Apple of the day, from a remote jurisdiction where the usual rules didn't apply. PirateBay is very much a big F.U. to the IP industry of today, from a remote jurisdiction where the "rules" are applied slowly and incompletely. Like any analogy, there are hits and misses, but I see irony in a company that exists today because of someone's pirate disruption of the entrenched system sending a cease-and-desist to other disruptors. Another way to put it is that Apple isn't dancing with the one they brought to the Ball. http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Texaco_Towers.txt http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...

by chao- 14y ago

raganwald 14y ago

The notable things about this is the irony. When Steve Jobs was running the Macintosh team, he put up a pirate flag to signal their defiance of the status quo as he went about disrupting Apple itself (a company making its money off the Apple // and investing in the bloated and expensive Lisa). http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Pirate_Flag.txt http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...

weiran 14y ago
I don't see any irony at all. The only similarity with those stories is the word "pirate".
- raganwald 14y ago
  At the time, Jobs had been pushed out of all of his operating/management roles by the professionals running the company. he latched onto Jef Raskin's Macintosh project and remade it in his own vision. He moved the entire team out of Apple's offices so that they could work without interference from the powers-that-be, who would have blocked his efforts once they realized how much his new "inexpensive" computer would compete with their existing push to sell a $10,000+ Lisa. Macintosh was very much a big "F.U." to the Apple of the day, from a remote jurisdiction where the usual rules didn't apply. PirateBay is very much a big F.U. to the IP industry of today, from a remote jurisdiction where the "rules" are applied slowly and incompletely. Like any analogy, there are hits and misses, but I see irony in a company that exists today because of someone's pirate disruption of the entrenched system sending a cease-and-desist to other disruptors. Another way to put it is that Apple isn't dancing with the one they brought to the Ball. http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Texaco_Towers.txt http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...