Piracy is Just
[Matt] Mason's argument was sensible enough: Pirates aren't anti-capitalists, they're punk capitalists. "D.I.Y. encourages us to reject authority and heirarchy, advocating that we can and should produce as much as we consume," Mason writes in the opening chapter of his homage to piracy. "Since punk, this idea has been quietly changing the fabric of our economic system, replacing outdated ideas with twenty-first-century upgrades of Punk Capitalism."
...piracy isn't just another business model; it is the greatest business model of them all. Its secret, as we shall see, is getting people to work for you, for free.
That's not "free" as in beer, that's "free" as in serfdom.
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