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Originally Posted by Kirtai
Piracy was a foul crime involving, among other things, theft, murder, rape and kidnapping of people from vessels.
The term was later co-opted by certain media industries to refer to copyright infringement in a cynical attempt to transfer the revulsion towards the original crimes to the civil offence.
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Of course, the first kind of pirates, like those in Somali, have no other options to feed their families. While the second kind are either cheap or greedy, whatever you want to call it.