[Free-sklyarov-uk] BBC 2 7:30 PM - Attack of the Cyber Pirates
Alexandre Dulaunoy
Alexandre.Dulaunoy at ael.be
Wed, 17 Jul 2002 14:47:31 +0200 (CEST)
On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 02:24:19PM +0200, Alexandre Dulaunoy wrote nothing
> new and quoted from:
> > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html
>
> Quoting Richard Stallman is all very well, but you may want to note that
> the word piracy in connection with illegal copying dates back to some time
> in the late 1700s.
>
> The use of words can be discussed to death. This list does not seem to me
> to be the right place to do it.
>
> (Not that I agree with the use of the word ``piracy'' but I'm fed up with
> reading the same recycled text over and over again)
>
Yes, I'm agree with you. But the comment was made to ask what
type of action to do for educating the media about the mis-information
transmitted by the big media companies ?
It's quite important to notify the journalist when there is a
misconception in their article.
hope this helps.
adulau
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