Piracy? Or Just Hyperbole?
8th April 2011
There has been a war of language and thought going on in the copyright debate for years. People think in language just as they speak in language, which is why content industry groups have gone to such lengths to pervert nuanced legal language into stacatto and misleading buzzwords crafted purely for public consumption. This language war is the reason why when I Google the word “piracy”, the first page gives me the Wikipedia article for the war act of piracy and then in the news items I get a story about lawmakers wondering if search engines contribute to piracy.
Three sentences with so much intellectual dishonesty, subtle word games, and nationalism wrapped up in a tidy knot that it’s sickening. First, to get it out of the way, note the word games being played through the legally incorrect use of the words “thieves”, “steal”, and “digital theft”. This is the game they play with words and thought.