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@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Piracy is a [capitalist](capitalism.md) propaganda term for the act of illegally
It is greatly admirable to support piracy, however also keep in mind the following: if you pirate a [proprietary](proprietary.md) piece of information, you get it gratis but it stays proprietary, it abuses you, it limits your freedom -- you won't get the source code, you won't be able to publicly host it without being bullied, you won't be allowed to legally create and share derivative works etc. Therefore **prefer [free (as in freedom)](free_culture.md) alternatives to piracy**, i.e. pieces of [information](information.md) that are not only gratis but also freedom supporting.
Have you ever heard about a public library that struggles with funding? Did you ever wish your local library could afford a bigger building and more [books](books.md)? Imagine for a moment now that we can build public libraries all around the world, basically for free, even in the most remote of places, each having so many books that they could fill an ocean, each book in so many copies that arbitrarily many people could lend the same book at the same time, for as long as they want. Wouldn't that be great? People promoting anti-piracy are those who say "no, we are against this". You just can't argue anyone supporting anti-piracy is not evil. We already have this great library that past civilizations didn't even dare to dream of, it's the [Internet](internet.md), it's just that evil dicks now prevent access to it.
Have you ever heard about a public library struggling with funding? Did you ever wish your local library could afford a bigger building and more [books](books.md)? Imagine for a moment we could build public libraries all around the world, practically for free, even in the most remote of places, each so plentiful in books that they could fill up the ocean, each book in so many copies that arbitrarily many readers could lend the same book at the same time, for as long as they wanted. Wouldn't that be great? People promoting anti-piracy are those who say "no, we are against this". You just can't argue anyone supporting anti-piracy is not [evil](evil.md). The ultimate library that past civilizations didn't even dare dream of already stands, it's the [Internet](internet.md), and the antipiracy scum are trying to burn it down, get us back to when books were a luxury and only the rich could afford knowledge.
Despite the term itself being recent, the concept of "piracy" is nothing new; it's essentially as old as the concept of "intellectual ownership" itself. Famous paintings have been copied by "pirate artists" and sold as being the original. Mozart, thanks to his genius, famously copied sheet of music that was supposed to remain unpublished just from hearing the piece played. For the modern history of computer piracy especially the case of [The Pirate Bay](pirate_bay.md), a famous [torrenting](torrent.md) site established in 2003, was of great importance.