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pigopolist en · NOUN

Etymology

From pigopoly + -ist.

Meanings

1. A member of a pigopoly.
   • And you know who is responsible for that? The Pigopolists of the Football League and the FA. […] ¶ These are the fat overpaid bastards who want to stop you enjoying sports unless you pay an arm, a leg and a small but vital part of your genitalia. 2002 May 31, Philip Crookes, "Re: New Combined DAB/Satellite Receiver", in alt.radio.digital and other newsgroups, Usenet
   • The distribution is the same, it takes in sales charts and radio playlists and is agreed by the membership pigopolists. 2009 July 25, victor, “Re: Cafe owners refuse to pay for the right to use music instore”, in nz.general (Usenet):
   • By contrast, super-peers tend to take a higher-profile, often political position, sometimes claiming that the record companies are profiteers or “pigopolists”; that music (or other content) “wants to be free”; or that they believe in the redistribution of resources (for example, their college’s or company’s fast Internet connection). 2004, Guy Hart-Davis, How to Do Everything with iLife ’04, McGraw-Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 126:
   • The pigopolist record companies don’t like it because it cuts them out of the loop. 2006 March 28, “Alice”, comment in the blog Alex Moskalyuk Online, quoted in Marjorie D. Kibby, “‘The Legal Bit’s in Russian’: Making Sense of Downloaded Music”, in Jeremy Hunsinger et al. (editors), International Handbook of Internet Research, Springer (2010), page 305

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