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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

Alongside his role as on-set Rocket, Gunn also portrayed Ravager Clan space pirate Kraglin Obfonteri in “Guardians of the Galaxy”; its two sequels, “Vol. 2” and “Vol. 3”; “Avengers: Endgame”; and “Thor: Love and Thunder.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 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

At the moment she was reading the palm of a man who was either a pirate, or an actor dressed as one.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

Sixteen suspected pirates have been arrested, while others escaped and were being pursued, officials said.

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

Luckily, her boat is faster than the pirates, and she keeps ahead of them all the way to Hagonoy, nine miles from Calumpit, where the Thirty-Seventh Division waits for the map.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Meanwhile, Anthropic agreed last year to pay at least $1.5 billion in a major settlement with authors who alleged the company had pirated their work to train its models.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

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

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

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Dozens of packages stuffed with shiny football jerseys have piled up in a Mexico City warehouse, each with a sticker reading "seized merchandise" -- pirated products for the 2026 World Cup.

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

Napster, the former music pirating site and bane of major labels at the turn of the millennium, is today a minor player compared to Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 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

He didn’t consider acquiring free music online to be pirating or theft, though.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz


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