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That is an unfortunate name. This has implications much greater than a few privileged first-worlders sharing some movies but you wouldn't guess it from the name
by noonespecial 12y ago
That is an unfortunate name. This has implications much greater than a few privileged first-worlders sharing some movies but you wouldn't guess it from the name.
FreedomBox perhaps? WunderWurfel? Anything seems better than Pirate-something.
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- icebraining 12y agoFreedomBox already exists; it's a similar project: https://freedomboxfoundation.org/ https://freedomboxfoundation.org/
- aw3c2 12y agoSharebox?
- yarrel 12y agoBless.
- serf 12y agoI agree that 'pirate' anything is a disservice for a brand name, but let's not apply the MPAA's definition of piracy so broadly. Piracy isn't sharing copyrighted media, it just happens to be a spookier name than "copyright infringement" that the media industries like to use haphazardly to in order to paint such activities as morally reprehensible.
- travisp 12y agoLike it or not, neither modern media nor the MPAA introduced this usage of piracy. It has been around and part of legal discussion about intellectual property since the 1800s: "I know patentees are much troubled with piracies upon their inventions" (Irwin v. McRoberts 1879) "he has a just defence, and is not a willful pirate of the plaintiff’s invention" (Goodyear v. Dunbar 1860) and so on...