pigopolist

English edit

Etymology edit

pigopoly +‎ -ist

Noun edit

pigopolist (plural pigopolists)

A member of a pigopoly.
- 2002 May 31, Philip Crookes, "Re: New Combined DAB/Satellite Receiver", in alt.radio.digital and other newsgroups, Usenet:
  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.
- 2004, Guy Hart-Davis, How to Do Everything with iLife ’04, McGraw-Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 126:
  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).
- 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), →ISBN, page 305:
  The pigopolist record companies don’t like it because it cuts them out of the loop.
- 2009 July 25, victor, “Re: Cafe owners refuse to pay for the right to use music instore”, in nz.general‎^[1] (Usenet):
  The distribution is the same, it takes in sales charts and radio playlists and is agreed by the membership pigopolists.