For years, we've heard complaints about using the term "piracy" to describe the online copyright infringement—but most have come from Big Content's critics.
As noted copyright scholar William Patry argued in his most recent book, "To say that X is a pirate is a metaphoric heuristic, intended to persuade a policymaker that the in-depth analysis can be skipped and the desired result immediately attained... Claims of piracy are rhetorical nonsense." ([URL=http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/piracy-sounds-too-sexy-say-rightsholders.ars]MORE[/URL])
