I know this is pedantic but it is so annoying: downloading shows is not piracy. It is totally nuts to conflate unauthorized copying and sharing with the violent act of going on somebody’s boat and killing/threatening them until you loot their stuff.

Calling it piracy was funny during the early Internet when it was all pirate and ninja memes. But really letting them conflate this very minor crime with violence was a big propaganda loss.

Agreed. I do my part to avoid using the word at least since seeing it on gnu's words-to-avoid page several years ago.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Piracy

I don't usually get too many weird looks with "unauthorized copying".

You are a couple of centuries late: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement#%22Pira...

Some words are overload with more than one meaning. That’s like, a thing in many languages.

No one is conflating piracy with raid boats, killing people and physically stealing items.

Ignoring the nuance is just ignorance and pedantic.

As a matter of fact, most people likely don't even associate piracy with pirates or boats. It's almost universally used to describe obtaining digital content for free.

Fair enough, but if you torrent a show - which I assume most people pirating something do - you also share something, unless you explicitly turn off seeding.

You're not being pedantic, you're being wrong.