Personally I like and agree with his perspective on computer software, but find it a bit extremist. As for his controversial opinions I’d rather not discuss about. How do you view his ideologies and has he impacted your life?

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    3 years ago

    “Piracy” is a smear term. This can’t be any more obvious than it already is, when its detractors (on up to and including federal prosecutors) refer to the activity as piracy.

    No bittorrent user ever hijacked a ship and held its crew for ransom. No murder, no rape, no mayhem. Never was one a mercenary for low-intensity warfare against the Spanish.

    I don’t think a term like that can be “reclaimed”, and if it could, I have no idea why you’d want to.

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      3 years ago

      Gotta add here though that even actual original pirates were less brutal gangs and more democratic insurrectionists.