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It's published creative commons, so the piracy is legal, even encouraged.
by buchuki 14y ago
It's published creative commons, so the piracy is legal, even encouraged.
- reedlaw 14y agoCC BY-NC-ND 2.5 says: > You are free: > to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work I would not want to make the word "pirate" synonymous with "copy".
- kenbellows 14y agoIsn't it already, though? From how the media uses it, pirating software/ebooks/etc. is copying without permission, right? So in this case, the use of the word "pirate" is a bit ironic, since it isn't really possible under the CC license, but I would think it is still basically valid.
- throwaway54-762 14y agoExcept the CC license is explicit permission to copy. So even under the media's definition of piracy, this is not it.
- kenbellows 14y agoAgain, the use of "piracy" here is ironic, sarcastic, facetious.... As such, it doesn't really equate "piracy" with "copying" in a general sense, only in the sense used the author of the website. In a general sense, everyone knows it isn't piracy if it's legal.