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If only there was a word for it... #

By Jonathan Fitt Posted Thursday 29th November 2007 19:55 GMT

Warner sits on the board of the Motion Picture Ass. of America, which has alleged that the operators of the Pirate Bay are profiteering criminals.

Profiteering criminals, hmm, there must be a word that means that. Nope, I can't think of it.

There cant be a word #

By Syren Baran Posted Thursday 29th November 2007 21:23 GMT

... dunno, mafia ...., cartell, hmm. Doesnt sound right. And even having enjoyed an old Sid Meier game staged in the 16th and 17th in CGA graphics back then i cant find an appropriate word.

The word your looking for #

By Alan Donaly Posted Thursday 29th November 2007 22:10 GMT

is Corporation.

Colonization? #

By Roger Moore Posted Friday 30th November 2007 03:30 GMT

"And even having enjoyed an old Sid Meier game staged in the 16th and 17th in CGA graphics back then i cant find an appropriate word."

I've got it - Colonists! Although we call them Americans now and they might get upset if you go around refering to them as profiteering criminals.

You were thinking of Sid Meier's Colonization, right?

That word... #

By Mike Landers Posted Friday 30th November 2007 11:51 GMT

"F-15 Strike Eagle"?

Colonization #

By Law Posted Friday 30th November 2007 13:30 GMT

"Although we call them Americans now and they might get upset if you go around refering to them as profiteering criminals."

lol - I dunno, seems pretty fitting for most US business's.

btw - I hate seeing z's in there... I remember laughing with 4 other people for hours at how stupid a cop was on "Cops", he kept saying "So sir, have you been burglarized?".... only to find out a month later that it's an actual work in the american language. I think thats criminal... what was wrong with the word burgled that they had to butcher the language so?? :(

The word you're looking for #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Friday 30th November 2007 20:22 GMT

Is actually an acronym-- MPAA, also see synonym RIAA.

OED prefers 'z' #

By Roger Moore Posted Saturday 1st December 2007 00:09 GMT

"btw - I hate seeing z's in there"

Actually 'z' is the prefered letter according to the OED. It ws even used to solve an Inspector Morse case where the murdered English prof would never have used an 's' because they would know to use 'z' so you can't get much more British than that! It only became the fashion to use 's' in the latter half of the 20th century. So you can't really blame the Americans for that.

Oink did it first #

By Sean Keeney Posted Saturday 1st December 2007 12:45 GMT

The same code used by TPB was actually written for a Firefox extension for Oink. Pretty cool actually. The only difference I assume is that this is hosted server-side, not in the users browser, so presumably this could be blocked by last.fm if they wanted to?

Last.fm is great, but it would lose a lot of its standing if the new paymasters demanded tpb was barred.