Executive producer of Lost and Heroes interested in pirates — just not the ones you would think

June 30th, 2008 | Category: TV News

Filed under: Industry, Programming, Web, Reality-Free

If you take Jesse Alexander, the Executive Producer of the popular series Heroes and Lost, and add the word ‘pirates’, what do you think you would get? Well, it could be a show featuring pirates that have superhuman abilities who crash into an island that really isn’t an island at all. whether you were thinking that, soon after you would be way off base. whether you’re thinking more in the realm of information-sharing pirates you would be taking a step in the right direction.

It seems that Jesse Alexander is teaming up with Matt Mason, author of The Pirate’s Dilemma for a show about modern-day piracy and how fundamental it is for today’s society. For those not familiar with the

book, Mason makes an argument that the open source culture that we now have with info sharing is changing the shape of economies and breaking down walls that allow easier access to software, music, television shows, and other forms of media and technology. According to a post on TorrentFreak, the show will aim to educate folks on how piracy has been an innovator in our society and how it will shape our future. A teaser of the show can be found on TorrentFreak as well as Mason’s own blog.

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