The word "pirate" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use the word "pirate" when referring to someone who illegally copies and distributes media, such as films, music, or software. For example, "The couple was caught pirating films online".
Django Unchained – if (re- released – would be Tare- releasedrst movie to get an official run in China, although many of his films (including Django) are reported to be available on the pirate DVD market.
I am a member of the pirate generation.
For the non-fashion-savvy, Oscar de la Renta is the octogenarian US designer of Dominican extraction most famous for dressing Nancy Reagan and Jackie Kennedy in haute conventional style, while John Galliano is the fiftysomething British designer famous for dressing (and drinking) like a pirate.
The latter is a delirious surrealist fantasy involving a murderous child, a dreamy girl who might be his mother, a pirate who keeps her prisoner on a rocky island, incestuous relationships, a castration and a rape.
This was Shelby, a landscape of clapboard Baptist churches and faceless corporate franchises, where one man, acting in almost total isolation, had over a period of eight years cemented his reputation as the most fearsome digital pirate of all.
The second criticism, which has been voiced regularly ever since BitTorrent started work on its bundles initiative, is that when a famous artist releases one, they're teaching their fans to pirate music, because getting a bundle involves downloading BitTorrent's software client.
The issue of China and its attitude to intellectual property rights has now been reignited, following claims that a project in Beijing by Zaha Hadid is being replicated by "pirate architects" in Chongqing, the megacity in the south.
It retains the essential scenario of Conrad, his swaggering pirate friends and lively girlfriend Medora, but does so in the virtuosic bright colours of a cartoon.
Though you won't find much in the way of folkloric evenings, pirate hats, steel bands or umbrellas in the cocktails, you will find gorgeous split-level rooms in cool greys - all designed to give a jaw-dropping view over the ocean from your bed - giant bathrooms and walk-in showers, nine tennis courts, a good gym and spa, and of course great food, tending towards a sort of Pacific fusion thingy.
In doing so, the commentators swallowed a fairy tale as faux as the make-believe pirate battles on Sunday.
And last month, eight-year-old Els wrote to children's book publisher Scholastic to complain that it had labelled an exciting pirate book "for boys".
