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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Piracy \Pi"ra*cy\, noun; pl. {Piracies}. [Cf. LL. piratia, Gr. ?. See {Pirate}.]
1. The act or crime of a pirate.
2. (Common Law) Robbery on the high seas; the taking of property from others on the open sea by open violence; without lawful authority, and with intent to steal; -- a crime answering to robbery on land.
Note: By statute law several other offenses committed on the seas (as trading with known pirates, or engaging in the slave trade) have been made piracy.
3. ''Sometimes used, in a quasi-figurative sense, of violation of copyright; but for this, infringement is the correct and preferable term.'' --Abbott.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
piracy
noun
1: robbery on the high seas; taking a ship away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it [syn: {buccaneering}]
2: the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own [syn: {plagiarism}, {plagiarization}, {plagiarisation}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
piracy {software piracy}
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
PIRACY, noun Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.
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