VampireBuddha: I'm suspicious about the statement about when pirates became goodies. It seems to me that pirates started being portrayed as good guys some time before digital piracy began.

Allandre: Yeah, heroic pirates were common decades before the digital age. This article needs a serious overhaul.

TheGrimSleeper: I concur, it needs to be a bit closer to reality. Long John Silver never seemed like a real murdering psycho in any adaptation of Treasure Island, and is even portrayed as nice in some. Interesting facts: Robert Newton invented the pirate-yahr in his performance. Buried-treasure maps and parrots on shoulders also dirive from Treasure Island (in this case the book).
The picture should stay though, with some sort of caption about how {{Anime}} {{Bishonen}} can turn even pirates gay, something which famed metrosexual Johnny Depp failed at.

FastEddie: Pulled hotlinked image. [[admin]]

Darktalon: It's possibly even ''more'' embarrassing for the media cartel, rather than having their epithet adopted as a badge of pride and become a phenomenon that way, to have chosen it in complete ignorance of its ''existing'' pop-cultural connotations.

Goldfritha: Well, I'm overhauling it.