[_delirium]

Somehow "piracy" bugs me less, I think because in this context the usages are different enough that there isn't as much likely confusion. When someone calls copyright infringement "stealing", they often seem to mean it pretty literally: they really do believe that it is, or should be, morally and legally identical to stealing. But when they call it "piracy", I don't usually take it as an actual assertion that copying a DVD is morally identical to armed raids on shipping. It's just become sort of a jargon term disconnected from the original usage.