Spyke
scribe.disroot.org

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

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piefed.social

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

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Pennomireply
lemmy.world

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.

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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.

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fedia.io

Those are the worst pirates I've ever heard of.

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Lyra_Lycanreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

Jake and the Neverland Pirates. Part of the Peter Pan cash cow extended universe, I guess

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toynbeereply
lemmy.world

This is a brilliant joke, regardless of whether it was intentional.

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lemmy.world

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

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Good luck with that, kids are learning pirating from their parents super young. Its really common at least in my area. It comes up in random conversation with strangers sometimes.

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lemmy.world

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

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Snowcanoreply
startrek.website

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

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lemmy.world

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.

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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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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.

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orbitzreply
lemmy.ca

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...

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

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

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

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lemmy.world

I just want to point out that Dick Fiasco is the best stripper name ever

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I don’t know about that. It sounds like they would be a total disaster on stage.

Hmm, that could actually be entertaining. I’m in.

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I would never! Just the spar. And later, the mainsail. After that the keel, and maybe the deck and gunwales. Then perhaps the poop deck and the rudder, later the helm...

The mast he can keep. For a while. Well, a mast.

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sh.itjust.works

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...

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prolereply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

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

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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".

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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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lemmy.zip

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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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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lemmy.dbzer0.com

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.

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I always try to 5:1

(this is only for a short period)

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Man, that's hallucinations. Maybe a night too many with scarecrow's drug.

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lemmy.world

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.

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sh.itjust.works

Ah but Copyright Infringement isn't theft. So you can be practically AND morally good!

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lemmy.world

In fairness, the Straw hats basically operate on the same principal.

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They do? I'm only at then recently arriving to fishman island but I only remember them being given stuff or accidentally ending up with stuff so far. They were given the gold in skypia and the ghost girl is the one who loaded their ship with gold in thriller bark.

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They know exactly what they're talking about.

They're LYING!

They're lying to children. Your children. For their own gain.

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