pirate

This fall, the academy will give him an honorary Oscar and he’s got plenty of Big Ridley on deck, including a pirate movie starring Hugh Jackman and, hopefully, his long-awaited take on the Bee Gees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

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

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

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

Jack and Connor are still way ahead of us, laughing and speaking in pirate voices—off on a mission to find some gold in this gray landscape.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

Although fictional, the game stars real characters such as the infamous English pirate Blackbeard, and other pirates including Mary Read and Anne Bonny.

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

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

People dressed up like kings and pirates and ghosts, and Ms. Mac dressed up like a clown with a sparkly pink wig and a funny face.

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney

Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle the portion of the case connected to the pirated works.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

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

Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion to authors whose pirated books it used to train its AI in the largest copyright settlement in U.S. history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 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

On board the ship, the speakers are playing an electronic track pirated from an unreleased Frankie Dena album.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

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

Otherwise, providers have generally shied away from acting on such breaches because of the potential for backlash by subscribers, focusing instead on more significant pirating activity.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 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