No no, that's not incorrect actually. I never deprived anyone of anything. I merely make a copy. See? Good pirate !
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Good thing the corporations aren't people, then
nor are the billionaires running them.
I agree. Don't steal stuff which is owned by someone. Only steal from mega corps and share it with friends.
And it's not even stealing. After all, they still have the thing too.
They're not totally wrong though. A huge share of the goods the Caribbean pirates "stole" didn't belong to their "victims" anyway. In fact, most of it had previously been stolen from the native Americans who had been conquered and killed or extorted from slaves on the plantations. Stealing from a robber isn't stealing imho.
Another, more modern example are the pirates of Somalia, who originally were fishermen. Only when foreign ships came into their waters to steal their fish and dispose toxic waste, they began to arm themselves to "steal" their own goods back.
Unless they were returning the treasure to the natives, it's still stealing dude lol
Good luck bringing back a treasure to the rightful owner, when the rightful owner has been killed along with his family. Also, usually the thieves would not write "stolen from person X in Y" on their gold bars.
And let's not forget that a non-negligible part of the pirates were in fact former slaves that either fled on their own or have been freed directly by other pirates. So they basically fought their previous "owners".
Yeah let's not pretend they were some noble boat robin hoods they just stole what they could find it just so happened to be a lot of slave made stuff
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A good pirate doesn't steal other peoples stuff! They simply take a copy. Yarr.
99 copies of a movie on the wall, 99 copies of that movie. Take one down, pass it around, still 99 copies of that movie on the wall
I dunno, if you take a copy for some reason there’s now 100 copies of that movie on the wall.
We’re hurting the economy by NOT making free copies of valuable content.
I like the way you think
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I mean, yes. What is copied isn't taken.
Disney: :| ... >:|
Congressmen: "But... is it illegal?"
Disney: "I will make it illegal."
They understand perfectly. This is called propaganda. They are trying to brainwash kids into not being good pirates.
how bout i take a propa ganda at them honkers
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Also Disney:
Okay but... He wasn't a good pirate.
Source:
Honestly, this is potentially among the top five best film dialog moments of the past thirty years.
That movie was far far better than it had any right to be. An absolute classic from start to finish.
Agreed completely. A movie based on an overgrown Tunnel-O-Love?! Ridiculous. No way it'll be anything even halfway good.
Shows how much I know.
It took the right lessons from Treasure Island in making the pirates incredibly likeable while still being all-around terrible people. Sparrow and Barbossa, plus their crew, absolutely stole the show from the actual leads. Combine that with surprisingly good writing and an amazing score and it ended up one of my favorite films despite being based on a theme park ride.
Allowing the pirates to steal the show from capable leads is what makes the first one so good. Making the pirates the leads, on the other hand, ends up being disappointing (see the sequels). Interesting lesson.
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Those are the worst pirates I've ever heard of.
Ah, but you have heard of them!
I have no idea who they are.
Jake and the Neverland Pirates. Part of the Peter Pan ~~cash cow~~ extended universe, I guess
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If you're downloading content off the internet, you're not a pirate. The real pirates are the ones that find the sources and leak them.
Everyone else seemingly calling themselves "pirate" is a freeloader, including me.
No need to self-aggrandize clicking a "download torrent/magnet link" button.
Seeders aren't complete freeloaders
I always try to 5:1
(this is only for a short period)
You dont need to be good at crime to commit them.
If buying isn't owning...
Which kinda mean downloading Disney movie and series isn't bad, because i didn't take it from them, i merely copy from the internet and their stuff is still there, and ~~seed~~ share the thing i like.
I AM a good pirate.
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You wouldn't download a pirate ship.
If i could, I probably would, tbh
To hell with that, I'd download two.
And seed three.
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This is (somewhat) paradoxical.
- A practically good pirate would steal stuff
- A morally good pirate would not steal stuff
- A practically bad pirate would not steal stuff
- A morally bad pirate would steal stuff.
So you have to be bad to be good and good to be bad.
Ah but Copyright Infringement isn't theft. So you can be practically AND morally good!
My brain hurts 😜
Well "true good pirates". However I am somewhere between "chaotic good" and "chaotic neutral".
For Disney a good pirate is just aesthetics they can make money off of.
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Here we see a fake Disney pirate confront a real Disney pirate...
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