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Question 1: State as many reasons supported with arguments as to why the movie name is Pirates of the Silicon Valley.

First of all the place where the story takes place is Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley is the place where many of the most important events of technology have happened. Many of the important companies that rule the technology world are found there.

A pirate is someone that steals and takes things that does not belong to him, without them noticing anything, that's why they decided to name it like that, because people and companies took ideas belonging to other, developed them and presented them as their own. Pirates are bad known, all the technology that has been created trough the years comes from modern pirates and they are not bad known, they are thought of as clever, opportunists and ingenious.

By this idea it was called pirates because for example Microsoft usually stole the software of Apple and slightly modified it so that it seemed like a new one, but it wasn't. And they tried as hard as they could to make the people from Apple not to notice they were taking many ideas the people from Apple, that they were actually stealing what the others had created, and they would do this by gaining their trust and telling them that the people from IBM were their enemies, not them. But the people from Apple finally found out everything they had stolen from them.

Apple (Steve Jobbs) said that true artists steal, (but he didn't notice back the that what he was saying also applied to people stealing to him, as Bill Gates stole from him) and the poeple from Apple were pirates. Steve Jobs thought of himself as a pirate, because at the end of the day he was an oportunist, who would take any good idea and make it his. they also had a pirate flag on the outside of his offices.

Bill Gates and his crew, where also oportunist, and what really made him so sucessfull was of course his knowledge and his vision, but also a little luck and his hability to diseave people and to manipulate situations.

So, if they where all a bunch of oportunist who did not doubt on stealing an idea and on lieying and diseaving people, the easiest comparison it to a pirate who used to do the save things. but all these pirates, where pretty much the ones who created silicon valley, so pirates of the silicon valley is a good name for the movie.