pirate
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From Old French pirate, from Latin pirata, from Ancient Greek πειρατής (peiratēs), from πεῖρα (peira, “trial, attempt, plot”).
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pirate (plural pirates)
- A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
- One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission
- 2001, unidentified insider, quoted in John Alderman, Sonic Boom: Napster, MP3, and the New Pioneers of Music, Da Capo Press, ISBN 978-0-7382-0777-3, page 178:
- And Gnutella, Freenet and other pirate tools will offer plunderings beyond Fanning's fantasies.
- 2004, David Lubar, Dunk, page 20:
- They had watches that said Gucci or Rolex on them even though it was obvious they'd come straight here from some pirate factory in China.
- 2008, Martha Vicinus, Caroline Eisner, Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age, page 21:
- If we untangle the claim that technology has turned Johnny Teenager into a pirate, what turns out to be fueling it is the idea that if Johnny Teenager were to share his unauthorized copy with two million of his closest friends the effect on a record company would be pretty similar to the effect of some CD factory's creating two million CDs and selling them cheap.
- 2001, unidentified insider, quoted in John Alderman, Sonic Boom: Napster, MP3, and the New Pioneers of Music, Da Capo Press, ISBN 978-0-7382-0777-3, page 178:
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- (one who plunders at sea): buccaneer, corsair, picaroon, privateer, sea rover
- (one who breaks intellectual property laws by copying): bootlegger
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one who plunders at sea
one who reproduces copyrighted works for distribution
one who downloads copyrighted works
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pirate (third-person singular simple present pirates, present participle pirating, simple past and past participle pirated)
- (transitive, nautical) To appropriate by piracy, plunder at sea.
- They pirated the tanker and sailed to a port where they could sell the ship and cargo.
- (transitive, intellectual property) To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of
- (transitive, intellectual property) To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of
- Not willing to pay full price for the computer game, Heidi pirated a copy.
- 2002, John Sayle Watterson, College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy, page 343
- In the 1970s cable companies began to pirate some of the football games that the networks had contracted to televise.
- 2004, Wally Wang, Steal this File Sharing Book: What They Won't Tell You about File Sharing
- College students, with their limited budgets, often pirate software to save their money for buying more important items (like beer).
- 2007, Diane Kresh, Council on Library and Information Resources, The Whole Digital Library Handbook, page 85
- Many college students now expect to sample, if not outright pirate, movies, music, software, and TV programs.
- (intransitive) To engage in piracy.
- He pirated in the Atlantic for years before becoming a privateer for the Queen.
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- (appropriate by piracy):
- (make illegal copy): plagiarize, counterfeit
- (engage in piracy):
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appropriate by piracy
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make and/or sell an illegal copy
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[edit] Adjective
pirate (comparative more pirate, superlative most pirate)
- Illegaly imitated or reproduced, said of a well-known trademarked product or work subject to copyright protection and the counterfeit itself.
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illegal imitated or reproduced
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pirate
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From Latin pirata.
[edit] Noun
pirate m. and f. (plural pirates)
- A pirate
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- boucanier m.
- corsaire m.
- flibustier m.
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- piratage m.
- pirater
- pirate de l'air m.
- pirate informatique m.
- piraterie de l'air
- piraterie informatique
- piraterie
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- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English nouns
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- English adjectives
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- eo:Crime
- French terms derived from Latin
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French feminine nouns
- French countable nouns
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