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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
yes, it does ! and it's very serious. |
I'll take you at your word and mock this sentiment pretty straight-on (dead ahead, as actual pirates would say in Indonesian-speak).
The label of "piracy" on infringement of intellectual property probably has about as much relevance to actual naval piracy as a wine cork floating in the Baltic Sea where somebody took a permanent marker and wrote the word "piracy" on it.
I'm pretty well aware of the whole "naval piracy was almost completely wiped out at one point and various factors have led to a resurgence in naval piracy in various waters of the world without adequate water police" concept. If I'm on a cruise ship that's being shot by rocket launchers (actual real thing that happened),
then I'll start to worry about naval piracy, but until
then I'll focus more on disapproving the various "higher" factors that create an atmosphere conducive to piracy, such as the child sex trade and general rampant pedophilia that pervades every damn island east of Asia including Japan, partially as a result of US intervention at some point in history.
But, like I said, until then...
When the pirate parties in Europe start representing outlaw navality, I'll just assume that they're abandoned representing individual rights in a new intellectual environment and adopted the ideal of total anarchy for those guys who boarded Bill Murray's big boat in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. It's possible that my assumption at that point might be extremely off-base if they're not just a bunch of hipsters who, like sassy world citizens since times past immaterial, just want to be noticed by other Norwegians.
Should this be the case, I would argue that the pirate flag that looks like a tape in The Pirate Bay's logo is actually a real flag containing valuable intellectual property.
Edit: Just re-read and realized that you were assuming that I was responding to something that I wasn't, and I was responding to you responding to something besides that which I thought I was responding to in reference to an earlier, now somewhat irrelevant post. All in all, my post that I am editing here, right now, stands as a very effective commentary about the part of that one post that I was originally replying to, but this post doesn't contain quite the same bite that it would have had I been responding to a response to the thing I thought I was responsibly responding to and not the mistaken response to my response to the response to this thread.