(CD) Pirates Take to the Ocean

rammstein_rulz writes "www.cdfreaks.com reports that asian CD pirates now produce thousands of pirated VCD's on anchored ships in international waters to avoid getting caught. Malaysian marine police have been asked to be on the lookout for pirate ships"

I wanna say it first...

[GeekyMike]

ARRR... hoist the jolly roger and walk the plank

Well duh!

[Pizaz]

Where else did you expect to find pirates?

crazy

[Anonymous Coward]

and here I am making jokes like "Arrrr! Avast ye, software pirates!"

Arrggghh!

[Anonymous Coward]

Ye best not be a stowaway aboard me pirate ship yest you be walking the PLANK!

Re:International Waters

[Anonymous Coward]

The RIAA's. Just wait for them to start issuing letters of marquee.

Pirates on a ship

[Imois]

How appropriate!

Re:ARRRRRRRR, matie!!

[handsomepete]

ArrrrMS says information *wants* to be free!

ITYM

[Anonymous Coward]

1) Forge documents from media companies, ordering large batches of CDs and DVDs from established manufacturers.

2) ????

3) Profit

obligatory simpsons quote

[travdaddy]

Wonder if they might get attacked by REAL pirates. If they do, I think it would go something like this Simpsons episode:

Bart: [through a bullhorn] Hey, Coast Guard! Try to stop us now, you lousy Americans.
Coast Guard: [through a loudspeaker] We can't hear you! Come three hundred feet closer!
Bart: Nice try. You're not going to nail us.
LATER:
Homer: Help! Pirates!
Coast Guard: Navy SEALs are on the way.
Homer: Oh, bless you.
Coast Guard: How about a tactical nuclear strike?
Homer: Oh, that would be just ... [realizes] oh, you're just yanking my chain, aren't you?
Coast Guard: Perhaps this foghorn will answer your question. [foghorn makes the "mwah-mwaaaah" sound]

These guys sound really scary...

[da cog]

I mean, how would you feel if some band of blood-thirsty criminals commandeered your ship, killed most of the men, raped all the women, and then told you,

"Arr! Give us your video CDs, or you'll be walkin the plank!"

The thought certainly sends shivers down my timbers!

Software pirates

[Hi_2k]

Now that we have software pirates outside of malaysia (not that it matters wether their out or inside malaysia, its too easy to get pirated material there anyway), we need to call in the one person who can defeat them. GUYBRUSH THREEPWOOD!!! make sure he has Card feeding him insults.

Re:What I found to be funny...

[Nick Harkin]

Well, if you want to spend lots of time moored out in the sea, running your computer off a battery or generator, at threat from real pirates and so forth, be my guest.

Count me out tho. :)

Re:Hilarious

[merky1]

They only nabbed those four because they were late on there "insurance" payments...

Re:Yeah, because singing is just like money

[MaxVlast]

I don't know about you, but I get my towels from a towel licensing firm. I'm only allowed to use them for a restricted set of purposes, but I get the benefit of regular maintenance updates and, um, patches.

Re:What I found to be funny...

[MaxVlast]

There's the real humor: What are the chances these guys will be gotten by real pirates? It's still a big problem in the southern Asian seas. "Arrrr, gimme all yer CD-Rs." "Aye matie, but we'rrrrre pirates too." "No ye arrrrrn't, yerrrrr just geeks. Well tanned geeks. Arrrrr."

Freedonia

[yerricde]

I believe that a vessel in internation waters is subject to the laws of its flag country -- the country in which the vessel is registered.

Then register pirate ships in Freedonia, whose flag (called "Jolly Roger") is a white skull and crossbones on a black field.

Yo ho ho..

[Anonymous Coward]

We got fifteen discs on a dead exec's chest..
Yo ho ho and a bottle o' cap'n.

Arr, ye scaliwags. Be handin' over yer wenches and yer discs, or we'll be sendin ye to Laaaaars Ulrich's locker.

Hilary Rosen?

Arrr. Ye can keep harrrr. We said wenches!

Now I have another excuse to talk like a pirate. Bless you, you ingenious content thieves, bless you.

But damn the media. Now I won't be able to release Pirate Linux without people being afraid to use it.

And I was going to make everything display in pirate speech. :(

"Shiver me timbers! Yarr kernel has been keel hauled!"

Re:Software pirates

[Wiz]

He'll need to insult them of course!

En garde! Touché! / Oh, that is so cliché!

From the Curse Of Monkey Island of course!

Re:Piracy on the high seas?

[benwb]

The us has about as much chance of agreeing to join the european union as france has of seceding from europe and becoming the 51st state.

In other news..

[Anonymous Coward]

Hilary Rosen declared today that the RIAA would be offering letters of marque to aid in the hunting down and destruction of the Content Pirates of the South Pacific.

When interviewed, Rosen stated, "We will not stand for this! The Crown will pay a thousand marks to any who bring in the heads of these scourges of the entertainment industry!"

Several daring captains of the IT industry have joined forces with the RIAA, becoming privateers. However, not all recording artists agree with the actions of the RIAA.

"I was there for the announcement. This one guy, he came up to me and said, "Arr, don't be worrying matey, I'll be sinkin' those music pirates! And then he pulled a flintlock on me and stole my watch!", said Lars Ulrich.

The pirates in question could not be reached for comment.

Re:International Waters

[ackthpt]

If they are in international waters.. what are the legal implications ? Whos Jurisdiction etc .. would they come under ?

Why, the RIAA & MPAA Navy, of course!

It's not like private enterprise hasn't fielded its own armed forces before. And to fund such an outfit, they'll have legitimate (don't laugh, trying to be serious here!) cause to (hey! I said, don't laugh!) raise CD and DVD (c'mon, please stop laughing, this really is serious) prices!

snerk snerk, damn, now you got me doing it...

Re:International Waters

[Squareball]

In 50 years the head lines will be like "Evil linux users now going into space to avoid getting caught using non-DRM computers! Galactic police have been asked to keep on the look out for these dangerous hackers"

Re:I wanna say it first...

[The Importance of]

LawMeme [yale.edu] has an entire post on this in pirate lingo - Shiver Me Timbers! Pirates Take to the High Seas [yale.edu]

Pirates, eh?

[elemental23]

Q: What do pirates use to copy movies?

A: CD-Arrrr

*ahem*

Re:crazy

[BigJimSlade]

Just remember, software pirates use CD-Arrrs!

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Re:Yo ho ho..

[Knobby]

Pirate Linux sounds something like PorthOS.. PorthOS is something a few friends of mine and I kicked around whenever the alternative OS announcements on /. became boring or we felt like tormenting the IT guys on campus (/. DDOS).. Anyway, PorthOS was going to be the Anti-Linux. The heaviest, most feature laden, OS ever. Error messages would be passed through text-to-speech and yelled at you in Esperanto with a drunken-french accent..

Someday it'll happen!

Re:This sounds like more hassle than it's worth.

[passion]

OK, then I'll register my ship with the principality of sealand [sealandgov.com], or maybe I'll launch a satellite, and form a moon base to make my copies.

Re:International Waters

[Alan Partridge]

the Mental Heath Act 1981

Re:What I found to be funny...

[MaxVlast]

Further evidence that pirate jokes are among the funniest things in the world.

Though they're CD-arrrrrrs. :-)

And once the piracy is done?

[Dr. Spork]

So what do these guys do with those huge chests of burned cds? Bury them and make a map?

This brings a whole new meaning...

[Q3vi1]

Ah, back to the good ol' days of pirating. Well, good new days? Who knows, all I know is that it'll be interesting to see walk the plank for poor quality, or stealing the captian's mead.

Re:Free CD's == No CD's

[billbaggins]

Or maybe the crap artists who are in it just for the money will stop making CDs, and the "art for art's sake" folks will carry on with what they do, living by contributions or concert tix or something, distributing their music on the Internet, and generally making music for the reasons that people started making music. To express themselves. To have fun. To entertain. To praise $DEITY. Because they wanted to, not just because they could make money off of it (though I will admit that making money is almost always a nice secondary effect).

Re:Freedonia, and "Micro Nations"

[lamz]

Why don't you just give peace a chance?
The best way to avoid war is to disarm.

Oh yeah? Tell that to the frickin' laser-totin' trigger-happy whales!