"Piracy" is the wrong name for "Content Theft"

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  • Redrob
    Confirmed User
    • Oct 2004
    • 4791

    #1

    "Piracy" is the wrong name for "Content Theft"

    By giving the name of "piracy" to the theft of our content, we are glamorizing the actions of the thieves.

    Content theft is not the swashbuckling, free-wheeling, romanticized face-to-face conflict for swag on the high seas of the pirates of yore as "piracy" connotates.

    It is the cowardly sneak thief, stealing the food from your families' tables, ripping of your hard work, and pickpocketing your wallet.

    Don't give these people any glory, credit, or credibility.

    Call a ripoff thief a "Thief" and treat them as such.
  • tony299
    lurker
    • Aug 2002
    • 57021

    #2
    very good points.

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    • D
      Confirmed User
      • Jan 2006
      • 7412

      #3
      I dig it.
      -D.
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      • martinsc
        Too lazy to set a custom title
        • Jun 2005
        • 27043

        #4
        good points
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        • Paul Markham
          Too old to care
          • Jun 2001
          • 52942

          #5
          Very good point.



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          • AlienQ - BANNED FOR LIFE
            best designer on GFY
            • Mar 2003
            • 30307

            #6
            I have always wondered why the term Piracy was used.

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            • flashfire
              ICQ 1 6 7 8 5 3 4 9 2
              • Feb 2003
              • 13098

              #7
              dont copy that floppy

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              • jalami
                Confirmed User
                • May 2004
                • 845

                #8
                Copyright infringement isn't "theft" either, in the legal sense of the word (at least in the US), but it sure feels like they're stealing something when it affects your bottom line. I prefer the term "ripoff" (but not "ripoff artist" since art is way too nice a term) or "lazy cock-gobbling shit-eating no-talent copying coward fuck."
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                • Rochard
                  Jägermeister Test Pilot
                  • Dec 2001
                  • 75761

                  #9
                  I disagree.

                  If you call it "content theft" it sort of sounds like a two bit crime. Call it Priacy and it drastically increases the value of the crime.
                  Herschel Savage
                  Brooklyn, NY

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                  • Redrob
                    Confirmed User
                    • Oct 2004
                    • 4791

                    #10
                    How about "Thief"?

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                    • Redrob
                      Confirmed User
                      • Oct 2004
                      • 4791

                      #11
                      Bump for the late night partyers.

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                      • cheapgallerydesign
                        So Fucking Banned
                        • Aug 2007
                        • 380

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Rochard
                        I disagree.

                        If you call it "content theft" it sort of sounds like a two bit crime. Call it Priacy and it drastically increases the value of the crime.
                        He said THIEF. Did you even read what he wrote?

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                        • riddler
                          Confirmed User
                          • Oct 2004
                          • 3726

                          #13
                          content theft doesnt take skill unlike software and game piracy, software and game piracy the pirates have to be one ahead of new protection on stuff, content its just download, upload, nothing else..

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                          • Redrob
                            Confirmed User
                            • Oct 2004
                            • 4791

                            #14
                            Do we make our content too easy to steal?

                            What would happen if we went to a no "free" explicit content best practice?

                            Just wondering.....

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                            • seeric
                              ..........
                              • Aug 2004
                              • 41917

                              #15
                              you got a point.

                              done.


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                              • PainThing
                                Confirmed User
                                • Aug 2003
                                • 368

                                #16
                                Guess you can classify "PrimeOutsourcing" in that category then...

                                Delivered to me "stolen content" under contract....

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                                • RawAlex
                                  So Fucking Banned
                                  • Oct 2003
                                  • 9465

                                  #17
                                  Originally posted by PainThing
                                  Guess you can classify "PrimeOutsourcing" in that category then...

                                  Delivered to me "stolen content" under contract....
                                  "User Generated and Submitted content" - aka: "Let your users violate copyright for you" - aka: "Making money off of stolen shit".

                                  being a fence just means you didn't actually break in, you outsourced it to people dumber and more desperate... but it still makes you a thief.

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                                  • DaddyHalbucks
                                    A freakin' legend!
                                    • Feb 2004
                                    • 18975

                                    #18
                                    Piracy is nothing glamorous in my book.

                                    Pirate = Thief

                                    They are the same thing.
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