Friday, January 30, 2009

It's a sad, sad day for the English language

Chatham House:
Backgrounder: Combating Maritime Piracy


We now have to qualify piracy with the word maritime? Bollocks!

Getting in a boat and stealing the cargo is piracy. Stealing videos, software, music, etc is copyright violation. Therefore, there is only one form of piracy -- maritime -- and the qualification is redundant.

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