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Hehe. "Pirates"
Whatever the perspective, it is a stupid term to use.
Some people use it in a negative sense: Pirates are those who steal from others what they have no right of owning. Pirates are arrogant and have a general "me first" attitude to everything they can get the hands on. Just like those pirates who attacked other boats and stole what wasn't theirs.
Other people use it in a positive sense: Pirates are those people who truly understand how digital content and the internet work. They are visionaries who sail the digitised waves and will lead us into a new future. Just like those brave pirates who sailed their boats around the seas and braved the waves and storms.
Basically, pirates have nothing to do with digital content or the internet. Pirates rape people. Pirates kill people. Pirates steal food from boats. This has nothing to do with digital content and copyright issues. It's as silly as calling hard-rockers or christians pirates.
Or on the other side of the spectrum: there is no brave new world on the internet. It's just a bunch of people sensing business opportunities with the changing culture of digital content. None of these people would probably last a month on real pirate ship. Or vice versa, real pirates were probably the last people to bring about any culture change sailing about on old boats attacking other boats.
Can't we just drop the term? It's just as silly when anti filesharing people use it, as when pro filesharing people use it.
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