Re: The term "pirate" is a propaganda coup
"The same reasoning would lead to burglary being a civil matter where the victim should bring charges privately against the thieves (which they presumably tracked down themselves), It's only your personal views on intellectual property over physical that lead to you drawing a distinction - logically your reasoning would actually apply to both."
well, only if burglary meant that someone never broke into your house, and never took away any of your property, and only much later did you discover that someone in a different house had the same things as you, and you didn't want them to have the same things as you, because they hadn't paid for them.
"And investigating and tracking down pirates is very difficult and many times more difficult still when you're a private entity rather than law enforcement who has the investigatory powers needed. Do you want only giant corporations to have the power to track down and seek redress whilst small content producers are powerless?"
-If you have had property seized at sea then your first port of call should be the police and your insurance company.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
