Today I will talk about pirates and especially by pirates. And although in the introduction with which I start referring more or less succinct those of yesteryear, which is really this article is dedicated to the pirates that exist today. Yes, right now. In the XXI century. And without going any further in our country. To those who steal and loot a given carte blanche in this case, the government of the nation. But we split.
This is the classic pirate flag, but not the one used throughout history.
almost always spoken of pirates, there is a degree of confusion and jumbled up with the concepts pirates, privateers, buccaneers, filibusters ... Terms all of which have been used to encompass a set of sailors, although with a similar action, seeking different objectives. Clarifying the concepts, note that the so-called "Pirates" were people who, along with others of equal status, is dedicated to boarding of vessels at sea to steal. Its name derives from the Greek word "Peirao" which means "one who undertakes" or "he who seeks fortune," or "striving." These people for the sole purpose of personal gain, getting great loot after the capture of ships and sell everything of value captured the ship, guns, slaves, and rescues passengers. It was understood that the hacker was a common thief sea, many sometimes bloody. The pirates were not dependent on anyone, nor were accountable to anyone. Instead they had the protection of any country and were persecuted by all those whose vessels had been attacked.
As regards the Corsairs, characters were very similar to those above, although in this case the government patent had a particular nation. That is, a country attached a permission called "Letter of Marque", whereby the holder of the same could practice piracy against ships of enemy countries, receiving in return a share of the spoils. Another part of this prize is the Nation that he had granted the patent, in exchange for their protection and to use its ports. The Corsairs could only consider safe port of their country, which also gave them some protection. It could be said therefore that the Corsair was a pirate "sponsored" by a country.
As regards the term "Buccaneer", that word comes from "bucan" (smoking), as initially the so-called hunters were preparing smoked meat to sell to the ships, although some were also acts of piracy if a chance.
Finally the "filibusters" were closely related to the above. The name comes some say the English word "freebooter" (predator), and other type of boat that they liked to use, and some people, a derivative of Dutch, which means "predator." In any case it was old "Buccaneers" that had completely changed their habits, engaging in full-scale piracy. That is, it was not individuals who practiced sporadically such activity, but back in the seventeenth century, coinciding with the beginning of the decline of the English Empire, were converted, and devoted himself to piracy, and given the name of "filibusters." With these clarifications
we focus on Pirates and Corsairs. As we said two words have always confused, among other things, the fact that the boundary between the two has not always been so clear, and often ended up becoming one other and vice versa. People as old as humanity itself, were the terror of the times in which they acted, as usual in their excessive violence to achieve its goals, among which was the torture, rape, cruelty ... But the time has always made such dire actions fall into oblivion a while have been equipped with a halo of mystery, romance and even romance novel. Not for nothing were people who enjoyed everything to that good part of humanity aims: total freedom and obtaining great wealth.
Although the flag pirate skull and crossbones was imposed as the symbol of piracy, in the days when this was taking place there were almost as many models as pirates and corsairs especially, as examples show the Blackbeard Christopher Moody, Jack Rackham, Thomas Tew, Viking, Bartholomew Roberts, Edward England, ... and even the current Somali pirates.
Piracy in the XX and XXI centuries.
During the twentieth century, and so far today, piracy is still practiced in varying degrees, to be exercised so systematically in certain pockets of the "Third World", which are easily identified: coast of Somalia, Indonesia and Malaysia ...
It is also called "air piracy" has taken center stage in the XX and XXI centuries, greatly complicating the issue of flights, and by everyone to be safety measures.
However in the rest of the world where there is no longer conventional scourge of piracy, has to apply the concept to other activities that violate other rights such as intellectual property. Accordingly, now the pirates are those who capture or rather, "downloaded" videos, images, music, or software without going through the box office and pay for copyright, and the part that corresponds to public finances.
Here is another pirate today, stealing a fellow human material to build their own nest.
Seen this way it would result in undesirable and unsympathetic characters who like pirates of old, seek personal gain, without having to depend on anyone or accountable to anyone.
is continuous bombardment in the media with news how are you:
According to the English Association of Video (AEVIDEO) "The state lost 500 million Euros for video piracy in 2009. " (Finanzas.com).
Piracy in Spain could cause 300,000 job losses in the next 4 years. (ABC.es).
Piracy in Spain three times the benefits of legal sales. (Cuatro.com).
The coalition of creators and content industries (consisting of SGAE, EGEDA, FAP, ADIC and PROMUSICAE ADIVAN) consider piracy in Spain "National Shame." (Adn.es).
But what or who is behind the news? Then simply "Corsair". Is well-known saying English for "the troubled waters, fishermen gain." And that is precisely what has made these people (I mean the SGAE and the like) to harness the river that they have upset and continue stirring every minute to ensure income from milk, with the approval of the state, as course takes its part, either in cash or in kind, because the votes are listed today even more than the pasta goose, that after all only serves to make roads, hospitals, schools or to pay pensions.
Let's see, that this reasoning is simple: If all we are paying a fee for the alleged loss of copyright, and if such a charge, as has shown, more than offset any loss (the actual, alleged, the imaginary and even dream) why continue pounding them daily with news? Well just to keep the privileges obtained (against dissenting views) and for discussion increasingly possible legitimacy of the canon, which obviously just plain absurd.
Pirates Nordic Group (bone, Vikings) in one of his travels through English land:
Those who practice a hobby or profession of photography are doubly victimized: first we have to pay a fee by teams and material storage. The most and least not want to risk losing the images that work so hard-won, and therefore saves on two different hard drives, and / or DVD. In the same storage media will not save or music or movies or software, ... or EVP. But you have to pay a fee for a small group of privileged people (some with artistic talent, others less, and others who seek life and cited for lack of artistic talent) but that if its Letter of Marque throughout rule and therefore with the roles, responsibilities and approval of the government of the nation, living the good life are given at our expense. And on the other side who are exposed to want to take our images of blogs, web pages and even paper publications, and use where he pleases and around the nose. Because obviously, we do not have the corresponding letter of marque.
But back to the SGAE (applicable to similar entities), when I say milk income "I mean that with the canon, this entity enters each year astronomical figures that" spread "between the" creators "and of course, also among the other characters that make up this gang, missing more (whether or not "creators of something," and is that something more or less interest, or none). According to stating the reason and the Web echoes Your Expert know that this entity has been distributed in the past year among its employees the figure of 28 million euros. Declared with a payroll of 473 employees, the mathematics show that the average salary of each employee of the SGAE is around 60,000 euros per head. Ie about 10 million pesetas annually for each employee. Man, this is clearly not the same charge current or former president, whose accounts have been reported recently (euritos 323,773 per year, and now a pension of nearly 300,000, paid equally by the SGAE), the ordinance of the building, but it serves to get an idea of \u200b\u200bthe case. Fleet
avutardil to view. Prepare 500-mm cannons. Ask lots of prey, and do not forget that the more so, the higher the percentage they will pay for storage.
As someone said, Ron has been replaced by CD-Rom, but ultimately that is to give joy to the body of these privateers. Finding information out there I found an opinion on this site which I recommend reading, and some of which reproduce:
http://www.guitarristas.info/foro/f2/reflexion-acerca-de-pirateria-espana-42947/
says:
"For those who do not know (I think) the percentage Target the author / singer from the sale of a disk / cd / video is 5%. Special mention the "big sellers," as Alejandro Sanz, Estopa, Canto del Loco, Ear, Melendi ... they can negotiate another chunk of the pie (never will be a big chunk). The rest have to give the producer, distributor and sales channel. If you think about it now ... I have groups that are often out in the picture when you go to see and talk ZP piracy ... Then there are those of the SGAE (Ramoncín, Miguel Rios, Teddy ...) but these are words special. Let's make a quick account of what a group that sells well, well, 100,000 copies, platinum before (now have fallen to 80 thousand) earned from sales: 100.000x15 € (cd) = 1,500,000. We will take your 5%: € 75,000. If they are 4 in the group: 18,750 euros. Come on, come to monthly salary is not even 1400 euros a month ... It is also true, and it will never say, that mediocre groups I will not mention, are paying an average of 100 concerts .... A year!. If these groups charge cache about 12,000 euros per concert, but their percentage of box office .... If it is mounted well, just have to pay salaries to technicians, transportation and everything that creates the show, but clearly it will never be to be left with a paltry 5%. If these 100 concerts are an average of 3000 people 300,000 people leave us. "But we had not said it had sold 100,000 copies?. Let's see, I do not understand, there are 200,000 people, who have paid between 10 and 20 euros (at least I'm talking about popular holiday concert), or 25-40 euros (for sports palace, pavilions ...) and do not even have the disc? Go, but if "Pepito" has gone to 3 concerts ... we the people are not able to spend 15 euros to buy a CD, because it is very likely to be crap, but if you download it and left like a paste concerts .... what is the problem then downloading music? I BELIEVE THAT IS BENEFICIAL TO THE MUSICIANS. Also, thanks to computer internet, youtube, myspace, it's pretty easy to have a model and people listen, free, so if anyone is depending on (record) to start and record your songs, therefore, music has been democratized " .
How right he is the man! And he says much more that can be seen in the link. But let ...
contemporary pirate couple, celebrating the cane he had just given him an intruder.
As mentioned, when buying any data storage medium (hard disk, DVD, pen drive ...) we are paying a fee, regardless the fate that we provide. And if we pay such a charge against piracy do not have the right, and we pay to download music that we want? If we paid for it! Why then are we crushing losses to illegal copying? Loss! What loss, if you have taken in advance? What's next we pay in advance? Imagine that when you buy a car they charge you a fee for the offenses you can commit in the future. Or we will go even further, imagine that before birth, your parents are charged a fee for future sales if smoking, about the possibility of developing lung cancer in the future, and cost paste the healthcare system.
But which country, my Lord! Another pirate
scratching his head with the hook.
And at this point some will ask what does all this. He comes to that just as he left the European court ruling that has left things half, had just bought a new hard drive and several DVD cases to continue making backups of my own photos, and every time I spend money on it I can not keep me away demons, when a party goes into the hands of pirates, with the approval of a government that considers me me and people like me a pirate, just for the sake of buying these products.
conclude with some news without waste:
http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/466653/0/sgae/concierto/benefico/
SGAE claimed 10% of a charity concert to save the life of a child.
http://www.internautas.org/html/1205.html
With the indiscriminate imposition of the fee for recordable CDs and DVDs to consumers, SGAE, in addition to recoup all the losses to piracy, will make a profit further in 2004 from 4,975,359 Euros.
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/SGAE/bate/todos/records/elpepucul/20070616elpepicul_1/Tes
SGAE breaks all its records. The number of authors sharing grows 49% over last year thanks to television. 16/06/2007.
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internet/SGAE/pierde/juicio/piratas/elpeputec/20081110elpepunet_3/Tes
SGAE lost the trial of the 'pirates'. Pirate Contemporary
in action:
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