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High costs cited as the main reason for piracy acceptance

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[–] NotAnonymousAtAll 33 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy

What nearly half of Young Norwegians are fine with is not piracy. It is unlicensed consumption of copyrighted media. There is a difference, and we should stop blurring the lines.

[–] orgrinrt@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don’t know, ship-borne attackers that plunder and steal… sounds very Norwegian really. Maybe they’re just getting back to their roots.

[–] Flipper 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] federalreverse 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well. That turned dark quickly.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Exactly. Young Norwegians are okay with raiding, not pirating. When you go a-viking, you expect battle and riches, but not from within your homeland but on distant, foreign shores. Sometimes the best loot is to be found in the Christian temples in England, and doubtless it's them that these youths are okay with stealing from. I know I (as an American with some Norwegian ancestry) am.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Surelly as the descendants of the Vikings it's not completelly senseless to think they might be fine with boarding ships on the high seas to take their stuff and with a little plundering of ill-defended costal villages!???