Music Piracy - The Semantics

[Sexy Bitch]

I've always wondered why, if law enforcement don't want people to engage in illegal copying and selling activities, they called it 'piracy'.

Everybody knows that pirates are cool. If I copy and sell something I automatically get associated with Blackbeard. That itself is incentive enough.

Any thoughts?

 

[kurama1992]

Personally I wear an eyepatch everytime I pirate some music.

 

[Cruiser]

Arrrg....people call me Mad Tom Bonney. WorlRAB most infamous pirate.

 

[robonefer]

Thats nothing i pirate TOnS of music, then dont listen to it because its cooler just to steal it.

 

[Doshie]

the Pirate's Dilemma

 

[Ella G]

When you are downloading a song illegally you aren't stealing money. You are stealing presumed money they don't know if you are going to actually buy the song or the album

 

[Zack M]

Try before you buy exactly, it's not our fault that most music these days isn't worth buying..right. Well thats the excuse I use.

 

[Jam (:]

i might not be a pirate but i have been downloading tons of music lately AND trying to read the one piece manga

 

[mike_the_drummer57]

It's not just today, there has been ****ty music since the beginning of time.

 

[Mr Hex Vision]

I've noticed that.

It's like...I go through old Rolling Stones sometimes...and I check the nuraber one song/nuraber one album for that given moment...and I'm kind of like...wow...yeah...people really were hitting that cocaine in the 70's like it was going out of style.