The phrase "pirated edition" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to an illegal or unauthorized reproduction of a book, movie, software, or other material. You can use this phrase when discussing copyright infringement or illegal distribution of media. Example: "The publisher filed a lawsuit against the seller of the pirated edition of their latest novel."
"They didn't want to be Hitler's publisher, and they knew there was this pirated edition".
Later on, it was picked up as a pirated edition, and I welcomed it.
Peter Mountford writes about trying to assist with the translation of a pirated edition of his own novel.
"It was sort of dubious – oh, now you can't see him?" speculates one of the bootleggers behind Motorcycle, an early, pirated edition of the Big Pink songs.
If you unwittingly purchased a pirated edition of Windows and can prove it, you may qualify for a free replacement copy of the system.
"Bleak House" isn't among them, but that catalogue was done in 1850, and the first pirated edition of "Bleak House" came out in this country in 1853, after having been serialized in Harper's, in 1852.
DynamicBooks, Mr. Foy said, will be "semester and classroom specific," and the lower price, he said, should attract students who might otherwise look for used or even pirated editions.
The book was released earlier this month and quickly shot up Amazon's bestseller list, but despite it being made available in a multitude of formats, for $9.99, pirated editions soon started to appear.
To safeguard his livelihood from unscrupulously pirated editions, he fought to obtain legislation protecting artist's copyright and held back the eight-part Rake's Progress until a law of that nature, known as the Hogarth Act, was passed in 1735.
Unlike the Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho, who has called on "pirates of the world" to "unite and pirate everything I've ever written" because he believes that pirated editions increase his sales, Goodkind says that "piracy does nothing to promote the sale of books – it is the free distribution of content at no cost to the reader with no incentive to later re-purchase".
From that basic disagreement stemmed years of litigation in the United States, France and Britain, scuttling film and publishing deals and leaving the field open to pirate editions, of which there were at least seven between 1965 and 1968.
