Sentence examples for based on piracy from inspiring English sources
That's a $36bn company, with 75% of its content based on piracy.
Mark Cuban, who founded Broadcast.com, an early Internet video site that was bought by Yahoo, has suggested that YouTube is essentially a business based on piracy.
"The first sentence of our criminal code, which deals with aiding and abetting, makes it clear that you can be criminally liable for intentionally building a business based on piracy.
The hardest question, Chief Justice Roberts acknowledged, is whether American courts may hear cases based on piracy on the high seas, a problem that was familiar to the drafters of the 1789 law.
"You can look at what they knew when they started distributing the software, how they behaved towards copyright owners, and conclude that they did in fact intend to build a business based on piracy – because under criminal law, that could be illegal," says Sydnor.
How can you have an economic policy based on piracy?
In all, seven people connected with the site were charged with running an international enterprise based on Internet piracy.
In what the federal authorities on Thursday called one of the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought, the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation seized the Web site Megaupload and charged seven people connected with it with running an international enterprise based on Internet piracy.
In what authorities have called one of the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought, the Justice Department and the F.B.I. have seized the Web site Megaupload and charged seven people connected with it with running an international enterprise based on Internet piracy.
"Fatbeard" is based on real-life piracy in the Indian Ocean, which began receiving increasing international media attention in 2008 until its demise in 2012/2013.
"Fatbeard" was based on real-life piracy in Somalia, which began receiving increasing international media attention in 2008; the Somali pirates are portrayed in a sympathetic light in the episode.
