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Ahoy there me sexy hearties
Consumer groups have long complained about describing copyright infringers as pirates, but now content creators are also unhappy about the use of the term. Apparently, it has become just too sexy.
"We should change the word piracy," said Agnete Haaland, president of the International Actors' Federation, at the launch of a survey on digital downloading.
The term has already been adopted as a badge of honour by anti-copyright campaigners in the form of infamous downloading site the Pirate Bay and a series of election-contesting Pirate Parties in Europe.
But who is to blame for glamorising the word pirate? The downloaders themselves? The content owners for using the term so regularly over the years? Unfortunately for Haaland, the problem lies closer to home.
"To me, piracy is something adventurous, it makes you think about Johnny Depp," she...