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piracy

[pahy-ruh-see] / ˈpaɪ rə si /


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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

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

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Three of its jobs were for “content security” to assess AI tools and guard against piracy, watermarking and rights-protection work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026

While hardly the first game about piracy, it was by far the most successful.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

It looked as if her piracy was forgiven, or at least forgotten.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

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

Could the sultan have been held responsible for the piracies of his nominal vassal, they would have been put an end to a century sooner.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various

But Margaret ordered the harbors of the maritime towns to be blockaded, thus putting a quick stop to their cruelties and piracies.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Rossiter Johnson

The truth of it is, his piracies so alarmed our merchants that some motions were made in Parliament, to inquire into the commission that was given him, and the persons who fitted him out.

From Great Pirate Stories by Joseph Lewis French




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