freebooting

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And throughout the decades before the Civil War, there were numerous “filibusters”: expeditions by private, freebooting U.S. citizens to take over portions of Central America, Mexico, Cuba and even Canada.

From Salon • Jul. 26, 2025

Moreover, Facebook has long been home to reappropriated content, from the freebooting scandal during 2017’s pivot to video to the more recent phenomenon of Instagram’s Reels being flooded with videos bearing TikTok watermarks.

From The Verge • Aug. 27, 2021

Green was also at the forefront of a controversy last year over freebooting, which is when people rip videos off YouTube and upload them onto Facebook.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2016

Mr Green said it was "inexcusable" that Facebook had not developed an efficient system to spot when videos had been ripped and re-uploaded, a process known as freebooting.

From BBC • Aug. 5, 2015

There Francis, laying a little sunburnt hand On the big bolstered pistol at each side, Dreamed with his wide grey eyes that he himself Was riding out on some freebooting quest, And felt himself heroic.

From Collected Poems Volume One by Noyes, Alfred