Tag: piracy

I have been reading of the latest round of interventions by the large Media groups so stop people pirating their goods and believe there is an interesting and very human dynamic that has not been well explored on the Internet. The act of sharing – taking a piece of music or software – and physically…

I was wondering about the life of pirates in the classical pirate period (there have always been pirates and there are still many today) when they all hanged out in Jamaica. The typical screen rendition is of either a wronged man seeking revenge or a lovable rogue who kills the really rotten pirate. The derivation…