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Illegal act of violence, detention, or plunder committed for private ends by the crew of a private ship (usually) against another ship on the high seas. Air piracy (i.e., the hijacking of an aircraft) is a more recent phenomenon. Piracy has occurred in all stages of history: the Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans engaged in it, as did the Vikings, Moors, and other Europeans. It also occurred among Asian peoples. During the wars between England and Spain in the late 16th century, treasure-laden Spanish galleons proceeding from Mexico into the Caribbean were a natural target for pirates. In the 16th – 18th centuries pirates from North Africa’s Barbary Coast threatened commerce in the Mediterranean. The increased size of merchant vessels, improved naval patrolling, and recognition by governments of piracy as an international offense led to its decline in the late 19th century. In the late 20th century incidents of piracy occurred with increasing frequency in the seas of East and Southeast Asia. See also Blackbeard; Francis Drake; Jean Laffite; Henry Morgan.

Dangerous guy, that is not the definition for software piracy!

Illegal act of violence, detention, or plunder committed for private ends by the crew of a private ship (usually) against another ship on the high seas. Air piracy (i.e., the hijacking of an aircraft) is a more recent phenomenon. Piracy has occurred in all stages of history: the Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans engaged in it, as did the Vikings, Moors, and other Europeans. It also occurred among Asian peoples. During the wars between England and Spain in the late 16th century, treasure-laden Spanish galleons proceeding from Mexico into the Caribbean were a natural target for pirates. In the 16th – 18th centuries pirates from North Africa’s Barbary Coast threatened commerce in the Mediterranean. The increased size of merchant vessels, improved naval patrolling, and recognition by governments of piracy as an international offense led to its decline in the late 19th century. In the late 20th century incidents of piracy occurred with increasing frequency in the seas of East and Southeast Asia. See also Blackbeard; Francis Drake; Jean Laffite; Henry Morgan.

“i work for a corporation”

they’re lucky to have such a witty individual onboard. you sound like a complete tool.

Parker has a good point about the profit complaints. Americans have been going out to the movies less and less for the past 25 years!! And yes, the quality of movies has dropped as well. It’s stupid to blame this profit drop on computer piracy; we can’t do anything with movies nowadays that we couldn’t do with two VCRs and a $10 cable from Radio Shack. It’s a total scam. As soon as I see movie stars driving around in Lincoln Town Cars instead of limos, THEN come talk to me about piracy. Thanks for playing, Hollywood!

Oceans 11 through infinity, Die Hard (on Social Security), Rocky (seriously?), Transformers, Italian Job, the list goes on.

Maybe at some point the studio execs will pull their head out and realize that original ideas and concepts make money at the theater. Look at 300, it wasn’t the height of cinema art, but it was successful.

I don’t download movies through P2P sites, but I can certainly understand why people would. Noone in their right mind would waste time and money going to the theater to see Rocky fall down and break his hip.