[bondarchuk]

>for the unambiguous purpose of piracy

That would mean he did it for the purpose of sailing the high seas, entering and robbing mercantile ships. In actual fact, he did it for the purpose of enabling users to run software not authorized by the manufacturer on physical devices they own.

(All of which is just to say: the association between "intellectual property" infringement and much severer violent crimes is itself a big ruse. Just like the use of the term "property" by the way.)

[hutzlibu]

I think the comparison with piracy is stupid as well, but the warez scene themself like to embrace that romantic pirate image very much.

Roaming the oceans freely, how nice - but the rest is indeed bloody murder and theft, which copying is not.

[StrictDabbler]

Piracy has been used to describe mass copyright violation for profit since about 1603, for a breach of a Royal Charter granting monopoly of publication to the Stationer's Company.

You might as well just say "acht-oo-ally, a geek bites the heads off chickens."