BBC Radio, speciale sulla pirateria passata e presente...

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E per pirateria si intende nell'accezione più vasta del fenomeno, dai mitici bucanieri del XVII secolo a The Pirate Bay. Gustoso programma radiofonico disponibile gratuitamente per l'ascolto sul web, che nella fattispecie sto ascoltando in questo momento mentre mi appresto a continuare a lavare il pannume vario che ho in casa e che si è stratificato per una settimana nel contenitore apposito XD


06:12 pm Listening to: Pirates - Part One

Nick Rankin takes a journey through history looking at pirates past, present and future.

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06:42 pm Listening to: Pirates - Part Two

Robbery on the high seas is not just confined to 18th century literature or Hollywood films, it is still very much alive today.

In the second part of his series on pirates, Nick Rankin travels to Mombasa on Kenya's east coast to investigate the extent of the problem.

From ship-owners who have had to pay ransoms to terrorised crew-members, he finds out what is being done at an international level to make the seas of the world safer.

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07:04 pm Listening to: Pirates - Part Three

From illegal downloads of music and video, to illicit DVDs and counterfeit designer goods - there isn't anything that's not being replicated illegally.

For this episode, Nick travels from London to Hong Kong, finding out how the theft and reproduction of ideas and goods has become big business.
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The US economy claims that in 2007 it lost £58 billion pounds and 273,000 jobs due to international piracy.

However, the United States were themselves the biggest intellectual pirates in the 19th century.

British authors like Charles Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had to fight to be paid any royalties for their written work in America.

It seems like yesterday's pirates are today's enforcers.

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I pirati di ieri sono diventati i difensori del copyright di oggi. E la Cina sarà probabilmente draconiana sulle infrazioni al diritto d'autore nel prossimo futuro.... Fantastico, c'è pure un'intervista a Peter "Brokep" Sunde, che parla di condivisione delle informazioni sulle reti di file sharing, una pratica la cui diffusione può essere considerata come "pirateria" solo da chi non sa di cosa parla o ha la coscienza sporca...