Why Pirates are Necessary

June 27, 2008 · Comments

Superstar pirate chronicler Matt Mason has released a video bit to go with his nifty book. Check it out here.

If you’ve yet to read it, I strongly recommend picking up The Pirate’s Dilemma. Thank goodness for Whitney Hoffman, else I wouldn’t have read this book. She’s a great book recommender.

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  • I don't have a url of my own, I borrow my sites.

    I love this perspective. Even the most "obvious" point that "piracy is wrong" doesn't always work out that way.

    Just jumped on my Kindle and bought the book.

    I've gotten so I really find your posts interesting. They bring a perspective that just doesn't mimic everything else that is written by others.

    Jim
  • This is hilarious. I think though we all have our own thoughts that we all "pirate" in a way. We piggy back off of others and by doing so we get great opinions and conversations going all over the internet.
  • An interesting perspective. I guess I will have to read the book now.

    Thanks for the post.
  • Nice video Chris, thanks so much for sharing this. It's so strange, because I "just" finished watching Lawrence Lessig's TED talk about the same topic.

    If you haven't watched this you should: http://lessig.org/blog/2007/11/my_ted_talk_is_u...

    Cheers buddy.
    Dave
  • I thought you meant real pirates, with the eye patches. We need those too. Just thought we shouldn't leave that out.
  • You do know your history indeed, though only parts of the technology came from Xerox, Steve Wozniak did a lot for the modern computer as well.
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