Tim Dobson, of the Pirate party (and standing as a candidate in the General Election in the UK as for Gorton) has launched a nice little test to determine whether you are you a Pirate. It’s clearly aimed at the layman rather than the tech saavy, or those well versed in the current copyright/patents/digital-economy/IPRED/ACTA , but might be worth a look. Its over at amiapirate.org.
The question seems almost absurd, unless you spend your time wearing an eye patch whilst attacking others with swords, use the words ‘arrr’ regulary, or enjoy taking over the odd supertanker, the chances are that you don’t think you are… Of course the term pirate is also used to describe those vexatious villains that breach copyright. In the UK this has been somewhat immortalised by the ‘Would you steal a handbag’ commercials (possibly aided by the parody of the same on the ‘IT Crowd’ that follows. )
Now Whilst the average person would probably assume that ‘pirates’ are either guilty of some sort of nautical mis-bihaviour, or at the very least mass copyright infringement for substantial personal profit, they tend to overlook the fact that any unlawful copy is as bad as any other under the law…
