Talk:Piracy

Does this fit on the wiki?

I can see the connection, however I don't know to what extent it makes sense to have this article on the wiki, especially with it being quite positive in tone... Seems like it could be a bad look, as well as not really being directly relevant to consumer protection Keith (talk) 23:34, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

I must concur here, we really need to ensure the wiki doesn't go under fire from the FBI because we spoke positively of the practice. Traditionally when piracy is mentioned on the wiki, it should represent the consumer reaction, such as what happened with Spore, which led to an excess of individuals pirating the game. JamesTDG (talk) 23:37, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

@Keith@JamesTDG Have to agree here. AnotherConsumerRightsPerson (talk) 09:50, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

came across this again... proposing deletion as I can't really see how an article on this could be made comfortably. Could probably be done, but I'm not sure this stub helps anyone Keith (talk) 15:16, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, toss it out. Maybe also protect the title for now, until we can have a staff member discuss a proper game plan for how we should actually handle this theme article JamesTDG (talk) 15:27, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Piracy Rudxain (talk) 05:33, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

The reason why this was deleted was because there was no proper plan on how to do it, not because it is irrelevant. AnotherConsumerRightsPerson (talk) 06:05, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. But that's one of the reasons why I posted that link. We could rephrase "piracy" to avoid problems Rudxain (talk) 06:21, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

How would we rephrase ‘piracy’ though? It's baked into the industries as piracy and may not be recognisable otherwise. AnotherConsumerRightsPerson (talk) 07:12, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

Good question. I was thinking of redirects. "piracy" and other alternative terms would all go to the same article Rudxain (talk) 07:22, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

Still got no game plan, but I can at least propose "Unauthorized replication" for the primary title, since I have seen it referred to as such inside EULAs. JamesTDG (talk) 11:59, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

The problem was not the name, it was more the content of the article, and how that content fits in. An article which is neutrally descriptive of piracy would be fine, however the same effect could generally be achieved by simply linking the wikipedia page for online piracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_piracy

I don't really see what it would make sense for us to include on an article about piracy that would be more useful to us than just linking the wikipedia page. Keith (talk) 14:30, 14 November 2025 (UTC)