pirate

Apparently, a lot of people pirate his films so they can be completists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

It opens with pirate ships in battle, swiftly followed with a lush tropical island on a sunny day.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

The rumbustious pirate, now looking at 50, with salt sprinkled through his red beard, sounds oddly subdued.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

There’s a spacecraft and a robot and pirate references, all catnip for sci-fi and dystopia lovers and all very well done.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

Luckily, Strøm was no pirate; in fact, he would have been deeply offended at the idea.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

"Those were all written for a TV show, for something that was not for me, so Fantasize comes out, crazy, was stolen... These pirates, crooks, illegal!"

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

False rumors that Benjamin Franklin, en route from France to Philadelphia, had been captured by Barbary pirates caused a sensation.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

From 2003 through 2008, the association sued some 35,000 alleged song pirates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

Once the Revolutionary War commenced, and for years after, America’s merchant marine fleet was targeted by pirates of every stripe.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

Digger, and I played pirates in that boathouse and used our dinghy for the pirate ship.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings

In 2024, a group of authors sued Anthropic, arguing that the company pirated hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books and used them without permission.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

One street vendor, who requested anonymity, lost all her pirated merchandise in a recent police crackdown.

From Barron's ● Jun. 6, 2026

Anthropic recently agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a copyright-infringement lawsuit over its use of pirated books to train its models.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

On Friday, Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance accusing it of supplying Seedance with a "pirated library" of the studio's copyrighted characters, including those from Marvel and Star Wars.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026

Mary Anne searched her purse for a Kleenex, but pulled out instead a teaspoon pirated from her mother’s silver service.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

At issue was whether cable provider Cox could be held liable for “contributory” copyright infringement merely because it had knowledge that some of its users were pirating music files.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

The US Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday on whether internet service providers should be held liable for the online pirating of copyrighted music by their users.

From Barron's ● Dec. 1, 2025

As the company started to become “not so gung ho” about pirating “for legal reasons,” it brought on Tom Turvey from Google to obtain “all the books in the world” but still avoid “legal/practice/business slog.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2025

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Two men who helped run the once wildly popular pirating website Megaupload were each sentenced by a New Zealand court on Thursday to more than two years in prison.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 15, 2023

Some families lived on the lower floors, pirating water and electricity, but the elevators didn’t work.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt