> Please don't equivocate “the concept of piracy” as if copyright infringement has any relation to kidnapping and murder.

"Piracy" as a term for copying others' creative works dates back to the 1600s, and is in a 1736 dictionary:

> The term "piracy" has been used to refer to the unauthorised copying, distribution and selling of works in copyright.[8] In 1668 publisher John Hancock wrote of "some dishonest Booksellers, called Land-Pirats, who make it their practise to steal Impressions of other mens Copies" in the work A String of Pearls: or, The Best Things Reserved till Last by Thomas Brooks.[10]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement#%22Pira...

To act shocked and offended that the term points to two different activities in 2026 is non-sensical: that ship has sailed long ago.

I think you're missing the point. Piracy, "digital" or real, has always been something that extended beyond borders. They are alleging this is probably due to governments doing said equivocation, in digital piracy case's, although I think it has more to do with the international treaties.