Thread: If instead of "pirates"...
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Old 02-04-2012, 11:24 AM   #30
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Originally Posted by Phogg View Post
Point.

The term came into popular use to describe people who are monopoly infringers.
Monopoly infringers doesn't sound so bad, so authors and publishers (primarily publishers) departed from civil debate by using the term "Pirate".
Presumably that was before Walt Disney and others romanticised the idea of what a (sea) pirate does? Booklegger I always liked, though I didn't know it came from the Canticle books (I only know those from the radio versions). Did the people who memorised books in Faranheit 451 have a name?
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