Resonating with British and American audiences inspiring many later pirate stories, Byron’s The Corsair (1814) participated in a transatlantic conversation about female responses to violent masculinity. In an 1869 Rhode Island newspaper article, woman recalled reading as child debating whether name her favorite doll Medora, the wife of pirate, or Gulnare, who kills their captor rescue pirate. W...

At the 2017 parliamentary elections in Czechia, Czech Pirate Party was unprecedentedly successful compared to most Europe. However, while Pirate-led alliance PirSTAN won 15.62% of votes 2021 Parliamentary Election, number MPs dropped from 22 4. The goal this paper is therefore explain decline. We show that pirates’ failures were primarily due tactical and strategic pirates, who, although acting...

The bug-fix time i.e. the time to fix a bug after the bug was introduced is an important factor for bug related analysis, such as measuring software quality or coordinating development effort during bug triaging. Previous work has proposed many bug-fix time prediction models that use various bug attributes (number of developers who participated in fixing the bug, bug severity, bug-opener’s repu...

This article uses conceptual metaphor theory to develop the concept of ‘skeumorphs’ (reuse of old concepts for new phenomena) in order to analyse the Swedish The Pirate Bay court case. In line with conceptual metaphor theory, which states that abstract thinking is largely metaphorical, the article argues that this is true also for digital phenomena that, thus, are largely understood through met...