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[Travis McCrea <me AT travismccrea.com>]

:) Considering Rick Falkvinge is being considered for the Times top 100 list 
(and is in the top 200 list) -- I would say there was at least a little 
genius. 

I really want to push this to vote, but obviously want to get as much 
feedback on this before doing that. Is there anyone else who has any comment 
on the dotPirate TLD as it has been proposed?

On 2012-04-02, at 10:32 AM, Richard Lyons wrote:

> 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

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