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Piracy
Piracy meaning
Robbery at sea, a violation of international law; taking a ship away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it. | A similar violation of international law, such as hijacking of an aircraft. | The unauthorized duplication of goods protected by intellectual property law.
Example sentences (20)
Piracy incidents across Asia have doubled in the first half of this year due to the coronavirus, according to a report by Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP).
They used content removal – when titles are taken down from piracy sites – as an education tool about the dangers of piracy.
The lawmakers also want the government to fully implement the suppression of piracy and other maritime offences act, which provides for a legal framework to fight piracy and create a more conducive maritime environment.
The reason piracy is so popular is because piracy is, for many people, the only way to be able to get a game.
After 1720, piracy in the classic sense became extremely rare as increasingly effective anti-piracy measures were taken by the Royal Navy making it impossible for any pirate to pursue an effective career for long.
First imposed to deal with Japanese piracy amid the mopping up of Yuan partisans, the sea ban was completely counterproductive: by the 16th century, piracy and smuggling were endemic and mostly consisted of Chinese who had been dispossessed by the policy.
Frederic invites the pirates to give up piracy and go with him, so that he need not destroy them, but the Pirate King says that, compared with respectability, piracy is comparatively honest ("Oh! better far to live and die").
Seychelles has become a central location for international anti-piracy operations, hosting the Anti-Piracy Operation Center for the Indian Ocean.
With his incursion into the Pacific he inaugurated an era of privateering and piracy in the western coast of the Americas—an area that had previously been free of piracy. citation Elizabeth I of England awarded Drake a knighthood in 1581.
And now, even the US is no stranger to piracy.
And when I became interested in information liberation politics and the piracy question, it turned out that the Pirate Party of Canada had just recently registered to run candidates for election in Canada.
Another suspected piracy incident is unfolding — this time in the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Yemen on Sunday, as multiple news agencies are reporting that an Israel-linked oil tanker has been boarded by unknown militants.
Apparently Jenkins was inspired to create the show after first learning about Bonnet, who underwent a spectacular midlife crisis that saw him abandon his wife and children to take up piracy.
Attorney Matt Wetherington applauded the duo for their work to stop “piracy” from running rampant among booting companies.
Counterfeit and piracy reports lodged at the IPOPHL surged by nearly fourfold during the first half of the year, driven by complaints on pirated gaming software, as well as by fake brands of apparel, perfume and beauty products.
Does online piracy make better art?
Four destroyers, P-8I aircraft, Dorniers, Sea Guardians, helicopters and Coast Guard ships have been deployed to counter the threats of piracy and drone attacks, he said earlier at during the event.
In a 2020 hearing before the US Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, the Recording Industry Association of America accused Twitter of taking no action to stop “industrial scale piracy” on its website.
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It means constantly reinventing our efforts to shut down online ripoffs and music piracy – and to ensure that emerging technologies are used in ways that respect and compensate artists and rightsholders.