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pirate

[pahy-ruht] / ˈpaɪ rət /


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One prolific user of pirate streams is "Kiran", a tech sector worker in his 30s, who prefers not to give his real name.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

When you’re a professional pirate, that’s what the job’s about.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

She was checking people in on the pier for a separate boat tour to Sazan on a replica galleon that advertises the opportunity to “be a pirate for a day.”

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

The region had recorded no more than a handful of pirate attacks a year since 2013, and five in 2025.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

He swaggered back to the fire escape, his pirate sword swinging from his belt loop.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser

Qabowsade rejected suggestions that forces from Puntland, a semi-autonomous region of Somalia, had helped some of the pirates escape.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Rudderless ship just waiting for the right pirates to come along.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

McDonald’s latest Happy Meal collaboration unites the anime pirates of One Piece with Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Men dressed as pirates follow along in their own finery.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

He put his reed pipes to his lips and began to play—a frantic jig that sounded like something pirates would dance to.

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan

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

Due to its global popularity, football has been found to be pirated at an "industrial scale", according to analysts.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

One street vendor, who requested anonymity, lost all her pirated merchandise in a recent police crackdown.

From Barron's ● Jun. 6, 2026

Mary Anne searched her purse for a Kleenex, but pulled out instead a teaspoon pirated from her mother’s silver service.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

Sony says it repeatedly flagged IP addresses—i.e., digital addresses—to Cox that it claimed were pirating music files.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 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


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