freebooter

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What the freebooter gains is attention, whether in the form of likes, shares, or new followers for its Facebook page.

From Slate • Jul. 8, 2015

In one remarkable coup, a freebooter calling himself Bozo NYC posted instructions on a computer bulletin board for pirating Sirius Software's Phantoms Five two weeks before the game appeared in stores.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tall and broad, with the heavy, prominent features and classical tastes of a Roman emperor, Rhodes also combined the characteristics of an Elizabethan freebooter, a financial tycoon, and a humorless, aoth-Century dictator.

From Time Magazine Archive

A ruthless political freebooter, he played this nationalism for all it was worth�just as he had turned everything else to account in politics, even his enormous red nose.

From Time Magazine Archive

The prosecutor Roy St. Lewis called Hale “the ruthless freebooter of death.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann