Originally Posted by gideongallery

no you idiot theives pretended to be pirates to hide their illegal actitity

look history

the first pirates were just committing salvage of delelict vessels

it wasn't until the first pirate argued that "God" took the goods away from the owner (with the storm that sunk the ship) and "God" granted him the ownership by providing the winds that allowed him to find the sunken ship.

That there was a legal right to be a "pirate"

when that happened thieves (who sunk the ship and killed all the witnesses) were just pretending to be pirates so that they could likewise claim that "God" granted them ownership.

Obviously because it was easier to just sink a ship and then "find" the booty rather then legitimately scour the seas for legitimately sunken ships, those "thieves" usurped the term.

But that does not change the fact that the term pirate was NOT EQUAL to thieves.

If the pirate bay wants to use the term in the context of defending fair use in the same way as the original pirates used it to defend the fair dealing of "Salvage" then that is their right

only an idiot would argue that justifies calling them thieves simply because in the past thieves usurped the term from the real pirates.