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Originally Posted by HarryT
Very true, and don't you think that many of the people who use the word "piracy" do so because the image of the pirate as an "outlaw" has a certain romanticism in popular culture, and makes the act of taking someone's intellectual property without paying for it sound less sordid than it actually is?
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Agree entirely - I suspect many of those who are happy to see themselves as "pirates" imagine themselves to be making some kind of stand against "the man", global capitalism, money grabbing corporations or some other bogey man. Another reason why we might want to give up the "pirate discourse" and replace it with something more helpful in understanding and unpicking the issues, (not sure the "theft discourse" is it though
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