[LINK] Theft, copyright, larceny...

[Rick Welykochy]

Stewart Fist wrote:

> Then in another posting Adam writes:
> 
>> However, recently, a woman in Sydney was jailed for copyright
>> breaches.  Although she was jailed for taking money from consumers
>> for pirated products.
> 
> Did anyone attack his use of "pirated products"? >
> Or was it a useful term to explain the idea he was expressing?

It would have been impossible for me to comment. Mr Toad was killfiled
by me some five years ago. What bliss!

I now hereby attack the phrase "pirated products". It implies that
some sort of booty was gained by acts of piracy, i.e. stand-over
tactics at gunpoint, the use of force and weapons and possibly murder.


> I, for one, will continue to use "theft" and "piracy" when writing for
> public consumption, despite attempts on the Link to impose legalistic
> euphemisms.

Go ahead. You are contributing to the shaping of thought by
apprehending the language.

In my lingo, "piracy" when referring to copyright violations is
an "anti-euphemism" meant to instill a deeper loathing of the
crime than is warranted.

It has been said that "theft is theft". May I add that "newspek
is newspeak".

cheers
rickw



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