piracy

After earning a theoretical physics degree, he helped build the file-sharing application Kazaa, which introduced music piracy to many, followed by Skype, in the early 2000s, which Microsoft later bought for $8.5 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

They span efforts to train Somalian coastguards in tackling piracy, advise border police in Mali, and help Ukrainian prosecutors investigate war crime allegations.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

He became an international superstar in 1935 in “Captain Blood,” as a wrongly accused doctor who escapes slavery and takes up piracy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

This year's figures, however, remain far below those recorded in 2011, when piracy in the region peaked.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

The word is a signal for piracy and theft and cunning.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

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

No one deserves to be called an antiquarian who cannot put two and two together, and reconstruct from these data a more or less elaborate history of the piracies of Mr. Thomas Veal.

From The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers

Or, most likely, he is from the Havana, or from some port on the Spanish Main, and comes to make investigation about the piracies which our Governor is thought to connive at.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various

That is to say, for all piracies committed eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, to the longitude and meridian of Socatora and Cape Camorin.

From Great Pirate Stories by Joseph Lewis French