Re: The Seven Types Of Pirate
"Christopher R. Maden" <crism-KB/[email protected]>
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On 10/18/2010 08:17 PM, joseph harris wrote:
> From: "Lee Passey"
>> Those people who equate copyright infringement with rape and
>> pillage (piracy? come on...)
>
> As I recall, it was the 'pirates' who called themselves that, not
> there opponents. And isn't the Swedish site called Pirate Bay, or
> similar.
Er, no... but in equal criticism to Lee’s point, it isn’t a new thing
either. Wikipedia[0] says:
> Prior to the Statute of Anne 1709, the Stationers' Company of London in
> 1557 received a Royal Charter giving the company a monopoly on
> publication and tasking it with enforcing the charter. Those who
> violated the charter were labelled pirates as early as 1603.[1]
Neither new nor self-applied.
Time flies when you’re having rum,
Chris the Ninja Pirate (yarr!)
[0] <URL:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Copyright_infringement >
[1] T. Dekker. The Wonderfull Yeare 1603. <URL:
http://www.luminarium.org/renascence-editions/yeare.html >
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