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[Richard Lyons <richard AT the-place.net>]

On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 01:08:20 -0700, Travis McCrea wrote:

> Pirate in modern culture (at least how I, and many others define it)
> is someone who is in a counter culture. People who support things that
> haven't been adopted by the mainstream yet. Pirate Radio, Pirate
> Party, Pirating Media, etc. If you would go to http://dotpirate.me we
> lay out exactly what "pirate" means to us as defining a support of the
> pirate ideology as set out by Rick Falkvinge. To get an idea of the
> Pirate Ideology check out
> http://falkvinge.net/2011/11/26/the-pirate-wheel-revisited-as-broad-ideology/
>   

I am always unsure whether the use of the word "pirate" for this rather
wonderful movement was a mistake (because of strong negative
associations in english) or a stroke of genius (hijacking the phrase used
by big business and antediluvian governments attemping to restrict our
freedoms still further, and making it our own).  Either way, and even if
I were not sympathetic to the pirate movement, I see no objection to the
tld.  On the contrary.

richard