If you need anymore evidence that the people creating media and content need to take a step back and breathe, this is it: they think that people pirate things because the word pirating is sexy.
Yes, pirating is sexy. When I think of things that turn me on, a dude with oversized glasses syncing up his servers to make sure people can download old episodes of Comedy Central Presents is pretty much at the top of the list. Swedish dudes trying to make sure the government and lawsuits don’t shut down the websites they’ve spent time putting up, or the RIAA suing people sporadically to keep fear up. Let me change my pants.
So people would be doing it less, if it were called something other than pirating. Cause calling it pirating makes stealing sexy. And lord knows we have enough of a society that glamorizes criminal activities, we don’t need to be doing it with super-sexy words. According to the International Actors’ Federation.
To me, piracy is something adventurous, it makes you think about Johnny Depp. We all want to be a bit like Johnny Depp. But we’re talking about a criminal act.
Rupert Murdoch’s son James also denounced the term at a recent conference, but he is the offspring of a 200-year-old vampire demon. His dad was around to fight off the original pirates, and now he’s using his scion for the second round
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