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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Gosh, what was going on in 1603? Oh yea, that was the hey day of the real pirates. The point still stands, the term was high jacked to make copyright violation sound bad to the general public. Just because something was used a long time ago doesn't imply that it was used as such by the general public. It's a bit like calling someone a Nazi now.
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It wasn’t “high jacked”; the term was deliberately chosen by a man who knew precisely what piracy actually was, to refer to the illegal reproduction of his intellectual property, which serves to illustrate that such acts were considered by those involved to be on a par with seizure of physical property even then.