Piracy is not theft. It’s survival.
They called it piracy because “liberation of culture” didn’t sound scary enough.The term was meant to demonize. But when you look closer, you’ll find that every major leap in human knowledge has involved some form of copying; sometimes illegal, often unstoppable.
Piracy is not about getting things for free. It’s about refusing to let knowledge be caged. About preserving, sharing, and passing on what the system wants to disappear behind logins, licenses, and expiration dates.
Consider the Pirate Party.
Founded in Sweden in 2006, not to promote Netflix freeloading, but to challenge copyright’s chokehold on the digital commons. They understood that copyright had morphed into a tool of corporate control, censorship, and surveillance.
But this isn’t a post in praise of any political party.
It’s about a mindset.
The pirate mindset says:
- Culture builds on culture.
- Knowledge is not a crime.
- Laws written by monopolies don’t deserve respect.
- If you’re not allowed to own what you read, watch, or listen to, then you don’t really own your own mind.
Look at OffshoreCorpTalk.
They love to pretend they’re champions of free speech.
Until your speech questions their sponsors.
Until you post a genuine review.
Until you mention another forum.
Then it’s banned, deleted, gaslit.
They even had a paywall to access your own posts, until we dismantled it.
That's not a community. That’s a farm. And you’re the product.
True piracy is not chaos. It’s order by other means.
A parallel system, built by necessity.
Where the rules are:
- Information wants to be free.
- Privacy is sacred.
- Access is a right, not a subscription tier.
The truth is this:
If you believe in freedom, you’re already a pirate.
If you believe in knowledge, you’ve already violated their terms of service.
If you’ve ever copied, saved, screenshotted, forwarded, archived or ripped: congratulations. You’ve preserved civilization.
The real criminals are the ones trying to erase it.
PS: The Pirate Party still exists in places like Iceland, Germany, and the Czech Republic. That’s not the solution, but it tells you people are waking up.
PPS: Anxiously waiting for OffshoreCorpTalk to sue JohnnyDoe for copyright infringement 🤣
