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Radio Caroline, a former pirate radio that now mostly plays rock music, apologised in May after airing messages falsely announcing the monarch's death.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

You can channel your inner pirate in this Idaho lakefront home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

That mainly comes down to its excellent setting - players take control of fictional Welsh pirate Edward Kenway in the Caribbean during the 1700s.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

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

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings

Christopher and Anya’s adventures unspool at a breathless pace as they hop from island to island, dueling with pirates, trespassing among giants and competing in a deadly street race featuring some of Glimouria’s nastier creatures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

The actor who plays the lead character in the new Assassin's Creed video game about pirates has said he "tapped into" his childhood in Wales for the role.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

European nations had a habit of hiring the pirates to attack other countries’ boats.

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

“I wish I could live somewhere where there were books all around. In a real town, with a. real library. And I could read about pirates or explorers or anything.”

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

The biggest players in Silicon Valley are building data centers to more efficiently run copyright-infringement machines built on terabytes of pirated material.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026

Due to its global popularity, football has been found to be pirated at an "industrial scale", according to analysts.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

In downtown Mexico City, street vendors hawk pirated goods on the sidewalks, with team shirts for Mexico, Argentina and Colombia selling for $10-$20, roughly one-tenth the price of an official shirt for Mexico's national team.

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

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

Cox also repeatedly warned alleged infringers to knock it off when Sony flagged IP addresses suspected of pirating.

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

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

Born in Lebanon, Myree was living in Paraguay in 2000 when he was charged with pirating CDs, video games and software.

From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2022

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