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Re:"Piracy" sounds too sexy, say rightsholders by scotty79 on Thursday March 18, 2010 @12:53PM (#1201770)
I wonder what new words they can come up with. Thief does not really work because for centuries it too obviously meant something very different.

Maybe one could find some good word in world of sex offenders and perverts?

How do you call jerking off to someones picture that had not been explicitly sold to you for that purpose either by model, photographer or someone who has agreement with both of them without informing any of them what you are doing especially if some people buy exactly this picture from them for exactly that purpose?

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Re:"Piracy" sounds too sexy, say rightsholders by olefoo on Thursday March 18, 2010 @01:47PM (#1201962)
If I were a memetic engineer in the pay of the rightsholders I'd probably try to coopt the term 'leech'. As it has connotations of parasitism and failure to contribute; and it's already in use in the community for people who download but never upload (almost every bittorrent tracker will report the number of leechers and seeders).
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Re:"Piracy" sounds too sexy, say rightsholders by scotty79 on Thursday March 18, 2010 @04:18PM (#1202379)
In bit-torrent terminology leechers do upload but they do not have whole file. Seeders have whole file which means that the keep being connected to torrent network despite the fact that they have no longer any selfish goal in this.
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