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Re:Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day by Shorel on Thursday September 19, 2013 @01:58PM (#6413164)
This one is by design.

'Piracy' was defined as copyright violation by the copyright holders, not by general usage.

Therefore, we should fight that usage, just to compensate the balance.

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Re:Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day by twerquie on Monday September 30, 2013 @09:51AM (#6469586)
I follow but disagree. The world's largest and most successful torrent site calls itself The Pirate Bay. There are political "Pirate Parties" in Canada and Sweden. It may have been a pejorative label initially, but file sharers have "owned" the name and made it their own.

That's exactly how language is defined; by popular usage, not by design.

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