August 19th, 2008

What Did Real Pirates Eat?

If you will ever find out what did real pirates eat, you'll surely figure out why is technology important today, believe me! This is one thing we often forget about technology - how much it changed the way we eat, although for most of us, this change did more damage than it should have. In fact, I won't even mention any name of the big corporations stuffing us with additives and tortured, forcefully inflated animals called "food," because we started with a different question - "What did real pirates eat?," and now we'll get close to that subject.

Why only "close?" Well, I am no real pirate, and I don't have any knowledge about the existence of such a character in my family tree, and real pirates didn't use to write biographies in which they mentioned every meal, but we have news about a pretty close thing to a real pirate of the Medieval Ages, a game pirate!

Now, I don't know if those guys in the video game industry have any idea what did real pirates eat, and I am sure they don't even care, but the truth is they are the ones eating pirates these days, since their latest victim, a 24 year old from Oakland, is going to eat in a cool place for the next 15 months...

The story goes like this - on Friday, Kifah Maswadi was sentenced to 15 months in prison and fined no less than $415,000 for copyright infringement, because he sold Power Player handheld consoles with various pirated copies of a bunch of video games, many of them Nintendo titles. Since we were talking about technology earlier, it should be obvious he used the Internet for these transactions, and it seems his profit exceeded $390,000.

I am sure this guy doesn't care about real pirates either, especially since he'll have no less than three years of supervised release, and 50 hours of community service, with the funny part of the whole thing being the fact that he will educate people on copyright infringement, instead of wiping the sidewalk...

If real pirates would have been forced to preach about the straight path in life to others, I am sure they would have hanged themselves, but I guess Kifah will have to move on with his life, and take it all like a real pirate, that if he doesn't have the bad luck of ending up face to face with some big guy eager to show him what did real pirates eat, after all...