You have your head very deep inside your ass. Look at the language you use: you use the word "piracy" in the way the corporate goons do, with no apparent critical or ironic sensibility. Don't you think that the word itself is silly in this context? Piracy, until recently in our intellectual history, was the act of taking things from people AT THE POINT OF A GUN OR SABRE with the understanding that those people would be shot or stabbed if they refused to give up their stuff. Now the coroporate brain-fuckers have us using the word "piracy" -- with a straight face, metaphorically speaking -- to refer to MAKING AN ELECTRONIC COPY OF SOMETHING. If you don't see the difference in these two things, then your brain is in sleep mode -- which, apparently, it is. Ever hear of a guy named Orwell?
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You have your head very deep inside your ass. Look at the language you use: you use the word "piracy" in the way the corporate goons do, with no apparent critical or ironic sensibility. Don't you think that the word itself is silly in this context? Piracy, until recently in our intellectual history, was the act of taking things from people AT THE POINT OF A GUN OR SABRE with the understanding that those people would be shot or stabbed if they refused to give up their stuff. Now the coroporate brain-fuckers have us using the word "piracy" -- with a straight face, metaphorically speaking -- to refer to MAKING AN ELECTRONIC COPY OF SOMETHING. If you don't see the difference in these two things, then your brain is in sleep mode -- which, apparently, it is. Ever hear of a guy named Orwell?
Couldn't agree with you more. That granting of personhood was one dumbass move.