Sobre o uso da palavra pirata

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Parece que a casa branca anda a ter reuniões á porta fechada com a industria do entertainment. Desse encontro espera-se que saiam mais umas leis para proteger os lucros desse industria, que foram de 30 biliões, o valor mais alto de sempre. Como sempre a minha opinião é contra criação de barreiras/leis artificiais que só fazem a sociedade menos bela e dá poderes ao estado de entrar na intimidade das pessoas em busca de bytes organizados de forma a mimicar algum outro conteudo existente.

Para finalizar coloco o conjunto de bytes organizados logicamente que exprime este abuso semantico do termo pirata que um slashdoter comentou.

"For the 88th Time:

Piracy is ship to ship armed robbery. Calling copyright infringement piracy makes light of murderous thugs, and makes infringement sound worse than it is. It doesn't even work as a metaphor. When we use their misnomer, they win. Then one of two things will happen. Either infringers will be demonized people sharing 1s and 0s or the word piracy will lose its gravity.

Cue the "langwijiz morf, get/it" crowd.

And yeah, get off my lawn, or whatever other dismissiveness you want to conjure. Disagree all you want, but try to do it without dismissing me as pedantic or a grammar nazi. Try some substance.

Language matters; word choice matters. All actions start as thoughts, thoughts happen in words. By calling a government a regime, we can make overthrowing it more palatable. By calling a person a kike, nigger, rag head, witch etc, we can make them not human, so killing them won't be murder. Hacker was a positive term. The "man" (media, law, etc) has corrupted the word hacker to refer to criminals. It's like calling Nazis German over and over until the word German means Nazi. When we blur the distinction between words we lose expressiveness and have to invent awkward ways to regain specificity that we threw away out of laziness and ignorance. Yeah languages change over time, but there is evolution and there is devolution and corruption. Change is not inherently good.

And stand up for yourselves.

Last time you guys modded this "redundant", let's see if you do better this time!
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