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The word "pirating" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe the illegal downloading or duplication of a piece of copyrighted media, without permission from the copyright holder. For example, "Bob was caught pirating a movie online."
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pirating
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Present participle of pirate
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Instead of pirating individual songs, RNS was pirating entire albums, bringing the pre-release mentality from software to music.
Chery and its brethren, for instance, have been accused of pirating the designs of entire cars from European and Japanese competitors.
They fear that foreigners are pirating their country's genetic material.
They have been accused of tax evasion, pirating cigarette brands, and trying to register Brazil's excise stamp as a Paraguayan trademark to ease smuggling.
San Miguel was not a high-security jail, and the victims of the worst prison fire in Chile's history were all serving sentences of five years or less, for crimes such as pirating DVDs and burglary.Just as deadly, though less headline-grabbing, is the quotidian tragedy of prison killings in the region.
Congressmen have been suspended for pirating and reselling cable-TV access, laundering illegally harvested wood and gold, running a brothel and lying about educational achievements on sword affidavits filed to run for office.
Pirating can squeeze profit margins.
The Aldine editions were widely copied, by pirating (i.e., without permission from the publisher or payment to him) and other methods, and their dolphin and anchor was one of the first instances of a publisher's device (roughly equivalent to the modern logo).
Along with a dozen others, the pair began pirating merchant vessels along the coast of Jamaica.
This sucks for those of us trying to honestly review the episodes ahead of broadcast with no intention of pirating them, and will likely make networks even more suspicious and less inclined to help out.
Many of these films would have found their way online due to people pirating Oscar screeners.
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