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(CD) Pirates Take to the Ocean

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the you-can't-make-this-stuff-up dept.

rammstein_rulz writes "www.cdfreaks.com reports that asian CD pirates now produce thousands of pirated VCD's on anchored ships in international waters to avoid getting caught. Malaysian marine police have been asked to be on the lookout for pirate ships"

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  1. Re:International Waters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The RIAA's. Just wait for them to start issuing letters of marquee.

  2. Re:Yeah, because singing is just like money by MaxVlast · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't know about you, but I get my towels from a towel licensing firm. I'm only allowed to use them for a restricted set of purposes, but I get the benefit of regular maintenance updates and, um, patches.

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  3. Re:What I found to be funny... by MaxVlast · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's the real humor: What are the chances these guys will be gotten by real pirates? It's still a big problem in the southern Asian seas. "Arrrr, gimme all yer CD-Rs." "Aye matie, but we'rrrrre pirates too." "No ye arrrrrn't, yerrrrr just geeks. Well tanned geeks. Arrrrr."

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  4. Re:Piracy on the high seas? by benwb · · Score: 5, Funny

    The us has about as much chance of agreeing to join the european union as france has of seceding from europe and becoming the 51st state.

  5. Re:I wanna say it first... by The+Importance+of · · Score: 4, Funny

    LawMeme has an entire post on this in pirate lingo - Shiver Me Timbers! Pirates Take to the High Seas

  6. Pirates, eh? by elemental23 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Q: What do pirates use to copy movies?

    A: CD-Arrrr

    *ahem*

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  7. Re:Piracy on the high seas? by syrinx · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's a reason why the US can't join the European Union.

    And here I thought it was because the US is *not in Europe*.

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  8. Re:Yo ho ho.. by Knobby · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pirate Linux sounds something like PorthOS.. PorthOS is something a few friends of mine and I kicked around whenever the alternative OS announcements on /. became boring or we felt like tormenting the IT guys on campus (/. DDOS).. Anyway, PorthOS was going to be the Anti-Linux. The heaviest, most feature laden, OS ever. Error messages would be passed through text-to-speech and yelled at you in Esperanto with a drunken-french accent..

    Someday it'll happen!

  9. Re:This sounds like more hassle than it's worth. by passion · · Score: 4, Funny

    OK, then I'll register my ship with the principality of sealand, or maybe I'll launch a satellite, and form a moon base to make my copies.

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  10. And once the piracy is done? by Dr.+Spork · · Score: 5, Funny

    So what do these guys do with those huge chests of burned cds? Bury them and make a map?