05-05-2003, 04:22 PM
Kasreyn, old friend:
When I was 14, and living in Taiwan, (1973) the term'
"Pirated Records" and "PIrated Books" was common parlance. The first record I ever bought was a pirated copy of _Johnny Cash in San Quentin_, and my copy of Battle Cry by Leon Uris, which I still have, cost me 75 cents at a pirated book store in Taipei.
The piracy refers to the looting of legitimate business profits by those who operate outside the law. Hence in nautical parlance, the very discreet difference between Privateers,who operated under a letter of Marque from a King, and a Pirate, whom no King would endorse or offer safe harbor to, and whom all Kings would punish if caught.
It is the publishing industry, and the recording industry, and more recently the software industry, who are being
RAIDED. BOARDED, and LOOTED, figuratively, by the copywrite flouters in much the same was as 17th and 18th century freebooters scored profits by raiding, boarding, and looting merchant ships whose inverstors had put their money and faith into a commercial venture, and to whom all risk fell, and to who all profit and loss belonged to under the laws of the time.
The term is 'piracy' and 'pirating' is extremely valid, accurate, and has been around for quite some time. A I understand it, the term originated in reference to Asian non-compliance with US Copywrite laws back in the 1950's, but I am not so sure about that.
In short, your protestations against the term piracy are invalid from a language and usage point of view. That term has been in common usage for longer than the words Hard Drive and Software, and Internet, as well as CD ROM, which are variously the high seas, ships, goods and holds of this twenty-first century Spanish Main. :)
When I was 14, and living in Taiwan, (1973) the term'
"Pirated Records" and "PIrated Books" was common parlance. The first record I ever bought was a pirated copy of _Johnny Cash in San Quentin_, and my copy of Battle Cry by Leon Uris, which I still have, cost me 75 cents at a pirated book store in Taipei.
The piracy refers to the looting of legitimate business profits by those who operate outside the law. Hence in nautical parlance, the very discreet difference between Privateers,who operated under a letter of Marque from a King, and a Pirate, whom no King would endorse or offer safe harbor to, and whom all Kings would punish if caught.
It is the publishing industry, and the recording industry, and more recently the software industry, who are being
RAIDED. BOARDED, and LOOTED, figuratively, by the copywrite flouters in much the same was as 17th and 18th century freebooters scored profits by raiding, boarding, and looting merchant ships whose inverstors had put their money and faith into a commercial venture, and to whom all risk fell, and to who all profit and loss belonged to under the laws of the time.
The term is 'piracy' and 'pirating' is extremely valid, accurate, and has been around for quite some time. A I understand it, the term originated in reference to Asian non-compliance with US Copywrite laws back in the 1950's, but I am not so sure about that.
In short, your protestations against the term piracy are invalid from a language and usage point of view. That term has been in common usage for longer than the words Hard Drive and Software, and Internet, as well as CD ROM, which are variously the high seas, ships, goods and holds of this twenty-first century Spanish Main. :)
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete