{"id":773,"date":"2008-11-18T21:16:24","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T02:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/index.php\/what-is-a-pirate\/"},"modified":"2008-11-28T12:32:56","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T17:32:56","slug":"what-is-a-pirate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/what-is-a-pirate\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a pirate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/riaa-v-people\"><img src='http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/About\/General\/2008\/11\/17\/1226931028823\/Sirius-Star-ship-001.jpg' alt='This is a ship -- the target of real pirates' title='This is a ship -- the target of real pirates' style=\"float: right; border: none; margin: 0px 4px 0px 4px;\" \/><\/a>I am so sick of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/riaa-v-people\">Digital Rights Mafia<\/a> and the media robber barons depicting ordinary consumers as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/technology\/technology-blog\/2008\/10\/jesse_brown_the_bogus_cost_of.html\">pirates<\/a>&#8220;. A college student who buys a CD and then shares it with her friends is not a pirate. A single mother who earns $15,000 a year who uses an unlicensed copy of Adobe Photoshop to eke out a living is not a pirate. A gamer who pays good money for Bioshock and then hacks it so that it won&#8217;t install a rootkit on his computer is not a pirate. Have they violated a license? Maybe, maybe not &#8212; but they are definitely not pirates.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icc-ccs.org\/index.php?option=com_fabrik&#038;view=visualization&#038;controller=visualization.googlemap&#038;Itemid=89&#038;phpMyAdmin=F5XY3CeBeymbElbQ8jr4qlxK1J3\">Pirates hijack ships at gunpoint<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?source=ig&#038;hl=en&#038;rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS272&#038;=&#038;q=pirates+kill&#038;btnG=Google+Search\">Pirates kill people<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/nov\/18\/somalia-oil\">Pirates hold multimillion dollar cargos for ransom<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enough of this &#8220;pirate&#8221; bullshit. Enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am so sick of the Digital Rights Mafia and the media robber barons depicting ordinary consumers as &#8220;pirates&#8220;. A college student who buys a CD and then shares it with her friends is not a pirate. 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