piracy
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Welch responds to the then-new phenomenon of online music piracy with practical concerns.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
Fears of data piracy and legal liability are rational dissuaders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Netflix in a statement said it is conducting an investigation and is offering to monitor piracy sites for any unauthorized distribution or sale of the film.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
There have also been several unsuccessful attacks in a region where piracy appears to be making a comeback.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
It looked as if her piracy was forgiven, or at least forgotten.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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Three are found in Article I, Section 8: counterfeiting, piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against international law.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2016
The piracies represented an oddly terrifying juxtaposition of technology and barbarism, an almost science-fiction quality of civilization in a retrograde time machine, stranded abruptly in a desert waste.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Milton, Dante, Marlowe, Keats, and Browning, with those I have already named, and others, make up a goodly list of sufferers by this lighthearted corsair's piracies.
From Oscar Wilde A Critical Study by Arthur Ransome
"Not in the case of Blackbeard," snapped the Councilor, "because we know it would be violated as soon as this treacherous villain could safely return to his piracies."
From Blackbeard: Buccaneer by Frank Earle Schoonover
The vessel was captured and brought into Halifax, and Jordan and his wife placed on their trial before a special commission for the trial of piracies on the high seas on 15th November.
From History of Halifax City by Thomas B. Akins
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Vocabulary from The Articles of Confederation
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