• drkt@scribe.disroot.org
    6 months

    A good pirate doesn’t steal other peoples stuff! They simply take a copy. Yarr.

    • TachyonTele@piefed.socialEnglish
      6 months

      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

      • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6 months

        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.

        • Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zoneBannedEnglish
          6 months

          As someone outside America’s (and upper-class England’s) sphere of education extortion, those who pirate and distribute textbooks are true gods - we get to learn for free for fifteen years, so should everyone.

  • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6 months

    They understand perfectly. This is called propaganda. They are trying to brainwash kids into not being good pirates.

        • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
          6 months

          Honestly, this is potentially among the top five best film dialog moments of the past thirty years.

          • Snowcano@startrek.website
            6 months

            That movie was far far better than it had any right to be. An absolute classic from start to finish.

            • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
              6 months

              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.

              • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
                6 months

                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.

            • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
              6 months

              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.

        • orbitz@lemmy.ca
          6 months

          In a world without global connectivity think how much this would mean? Mean he was probably harassing the British so maybe not as much as it could…

          • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
            6 months

            To me it means that so many have lived to tell the tale. And its consistently poor tale.

  • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    6 months

    I agree. Don’t steal stuff which is owned by someone. Only steal from mega corps and share it with friends.

  • optional@sh.itjust.works
    6 months

    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.

    Disney on the other hand…

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      6 months

      Unless they were returning the treasure to the natives, it’s still stealing dude lol

      • optional@sh.itjust.works
        6 months

        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”.

      • Soulg@ani.socialEnglish
        6 months

        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

    • sunbeam60@lemmy.one
      6 months

      Explain to me how overfishing and dumping by neighbour countries somehow justifies taking hostage a ship transporting goods from China to Europe?

      • optional@sh.itjust.works
        6 months

        If you steal my food and poison my soil until my family is starving, you shouldn’t be surprised when I come back at you. And don’t expect me to steal the fish back, that you’ve already eaten. Of cause I’ll take whatever I can get hold of.

        It weren’t primarily neighbour countries, it were especially European and Chinese vessels that were doing that shit.

      • Johanno@feddit.org
        6 months

        Others take my means of getting food.

        I take shit and food from others.

        Don’t care about justification. That’s just what they do.

        Try to live and probably since no-one really stops them continue to do so.

        You could provide alternative ways to earn money if you want to.

  • psx_crab@lemmy.zipEnglish
    6 months

    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.

  • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
    6 months

    No no, that’s not incorrect actually. I never deprived anyone of anything. I merely make a copy. See? Good pirate !

  • 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6 months

    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.