As an aside, and to get partially back to the previous discussion, part of the reason I first started reading One Piece a decade ago was for the irony of the situation. Specifically, I received some minor amusement out of the fact that I was helping to pirate a manga about pirates. Since then, I've always wondered if Oda was somewhat prescient in choosing to create a manga about pirates right when internet piracy was becoming such a big issue...
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