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Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror by blowski on Sunday September 25, 2022 @03:48PM (#32975286)
You're hardly the first person to moan about that, and you won't be the last. Your moaning won't make the slightest bit of difference, though. The vast majority of the world already uses the word "piracy" to describe copyright theft.
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Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror by Andrew_nenakhov on Sunday September 25, 2022 @04:20PM (#32975686)
Just because some clever PR campaign launched by the copyright lobby succeeded in equating harmless act of copying files to a violent dangerous crime, it doesn't mean we should perpetrate forever this substitution of concepts.
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Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror by systemvoltage on Sunday September 25, 2022 @04:33PM (#32975863)
Why is this pedantry relevant to the original point? I don't understand what you're driving towards.

What difference does it make if it is copyright infringement or 'piracy'?

We're talking about incentives for authors and how they can fund their risk/time for publishing a book.

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Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror by Andrew_nenakhov on Monday September 26, 2022 @04:32PM (#32987975)
Because the main source of ire of book authors is that they lose some part of the revenue from book sales due to copyright infringement, which many call piracy.

Now, piracy is an incorrect and am emotionally charged term to describe this phenomenon. I believe that a productive discussion on any matter requires clarity of chosen terms. Piracy is not one such term when talking about something not related to sea and ships.

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Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror by blowski on Sunday September 25, 2022 @04:47PM (#32976033)
Feel free to call it whatever you want. I will call it piracy because most people do.

EDIT: Interestingly, the first recorded usage of "pirate" to imply copyright infringement is from 1913, talking about "pirate broadcasts".

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Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror by kgwgk on Sunday September 25, 2022 @05:14PM (#32976331)
Pirate publishers were a thing well before that:

https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.28173/

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Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror by blowski on Sunday September 25, 2022 @05:35PM (#32976533)
Wow! I took the 1913 date from the Etymology dictionary, so I'm surprised it goes back another 100 years before that.
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Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror by kgwgk on Sunday September 25, 2022 @05:44PM (#32976628)
It goes back even more, it predates copyright.

https://books.google.ch/books?id=jFMEPUO7LS0C&lpg=PP1&hl=de&...

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