Well…duh!
I think it has always been a crime, even back in the days of
the Vikings. They were the worst! They would come to the shores of England
in their ships with the shields and axes, hacking, killing, raping and generally
causing all sorts of mayhem. I suppose that as long as there have been ships
sailing the seas there have been criminals willing to kill to take what they
had.
There was a point when during the Elizabethan era pirates
were given licenses and worked for the English government. I don’t know if they
had to split the take with the Queen, but it would have been a good gig. They
got to be criminals without being criminals, kind of like modern day politics.
We have pirates to this day who will run down and board
ships of all kinds on the oceans. I suppose the Somalian pirates are the most
feared today. There is a movie with Tom Hanks that deals with that exact
subject, “Captain Phillips”. I haven’t seen it and I probably won’t, but it is
about pirates.
Speaking of movies, it seems that all of the DVD’s that I
watch seem to think it is important to announce that PIRACY IS A CRIME! Yes it
is, but what’s that got to do with me?
I have a DVD ripper program that will take that stupid
warning out when I make a copy of the movie. If you’ve seen the warning once,
that’s enough. No one likes pirates. Well, the ones in Peter Pan were kind of
harmless. I wonder if the warning is on the Peter Pan movie. Whatever…
I live in the middle of a continent, so I don’t ever have to
worry about the pirates; I guess I am just lucky.
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