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piracy

[pahy-ruh-see] / ˈpaɪ rə si /


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

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 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

“All it has left is bullying, piracy, noise and the ability to act as a spoiler,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

On 7 May, the government launched a nationwide crackdown on products and practices that violate intellectual property rights, including counterfeit goods, online piracy and trademark infringements.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

He does not tell her that he has only one dream, and it is just as improbable as a career in garden piracy.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

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

Algiers renewed its piracies and slave-taking, though on a smaller scale, and the measures to be taken with it were discussed at the conference or congress of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1818.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various

The fortune held by the Astors, so the facts indubitably show, represents a succession of piracies and exploitation.

From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Myers Gustavus

This engraving delighted the public whom it satirised, and Hogarth lost much through piracies of his work.

From English Painters with a chapter on American painters by S. R. Koehler




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