"Real" Pirates Attempt to Reclaim Name from Copyright Debate; Assert that "Piracy" Still Relevant in 21st Century
ABC News: Attack on Ship Shows Pirates Emboldened
NAIROBI, Kenya Nov 6, 2005 ---- The violent attack on a cruise liner off Somalia's coast shows pirates from the anarchic country on the Horn of Africa are becoming bolder and more ambitious in their efforts to hijack ships for ransom and loot, a maritime official warned Sunday.
Here is how you reclaim a word, kids: you put action behind it. When cruise ship crews have to fend off naval bombardments, the word "piracy" is meaningfully recontextualized. Calling a thirteen year-old girl who downloads Baha Men's "Who Let the Dogs Out" off of a P2P network a "pirate" no longer seems credible.
Now if only berserkers and their battle axes would return to the Swedish military. Then we might be able to re-align the meaning of the word "hacker."