In the wake of the conviction of four Swedish file-sharers behind Pirate Bay, the blog site Somali Pirate Blog condemns the four for usurping the word “pirate.”
“We, the true pirates, are upholding a tradition of actual piracy.
The violent kind. With weapons, booty, boats, and hostages,” the blog
reads. “We are demanding that the press stop describing internet kids
who send movies to each other ‘pirates’ … The day we see a movie
executive on the high seas is the day we take him hostage and show him
what real piracy looks like.”
In related news, The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart
says that with the rise of maritime privacy off the Somali coast, those
who share music and movie files illegally will have to go back to their
original name: Thieves.