Your new word for the day.

[citruscommando]

Downlift ( \ˈdau̇n-ˌlift\ ): v. To improperly obtain digital data or media. Intended to replace references to "pirate" and "piracy

Comments

[mokey4]

I hope it doesn't catch on- piracy is so much more romantic-sounding!

That's kind of the point.

[citruscommando]

The whole point of the push to stop referring to data "theft" as "piracy", is the fact that the present state of actual piracy isn't romantic at all - it's brutal and bloody. Piracy *shouldn't* sound romantic at all!

Most of us have it wrong about how piracy actually was in the 17th-18th centuries, anyway. The movies have "romanticized" it to the point of warping history in our minds.

Re: That's kind of the point.

[mokey4]

I know, but I wish people wouldn't change the English language to sound like a computer manual.