Friday, November 19, 2004

Real pirates don't steal music From BoingBoing, more chat and linkage about pirates, real and fictional: Pirates eavesdropping on satellite calls. . . [Boing Boing] Which reminds me again that we should be reminding our congress critters, the RIAA, and MPAA, that there are very real, very nasty pirates commiting very real crimes in the world today -- stealing, torturing, murdering very real people -- and we should stop talking about "pirating" software or music or movies. I know, it's one of those framing things that George Lakoff talks about (see Don't Think of an Elephant!). As long as we use their language, we're playing their game. Stop it. 12:05:30 PM    Questions? Comments? Flames? []

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