What is "pirated"

Usage examples of "pirated".

Besides which, we've already made use of many pirated commodities that the first Barevi expedition brought back.

Not to mention his supposed orders to proceed into Seti space: faked orders, which no one (after he pirated a ship and killed the crew) would believe he had not faked for himself.

Crippled versions of software or pirated copies of software without itsmanuals, updatesand support often lead to the purchase of a licence.

Confronted with abundant and cheap pirated foreign books, local authors resorted to freelancing in magazines and lecture tours in a vain effort to make ends meet.

When he sells a pirated Microsoft product - he is depriving Microsoft not only of its income, but of a client (=future income), of its monopolistic status (cheap copies can be smuggled into other markets), and of its competition-deterring image (a major monopoly preserving asset).

Even if this constitutes 20% of all the copies (the rest being pirated versions) - it still represents less than 3% of the population of the world.

Only how could a planet, which was now known to the thousands of folk on board the ARCT-10, get pirated out from under the noses of legitimate FSP interests by, if the past was any indication, even the most violent means?

The Vestrit family's finest possessions had been sold earlier in the summer, to finance a rescue effort for their pirated liveship.

They feasted on rich foods and valuable wines pirated from other ships.

It was a hardware clone, and the programs that went with it were pirated versions.

There must be at least some pirated designs around in the Carcon Colony, but the only equipment she really cared about was the genuine BEC article.

And those, assuming that they were BEC equipment rather than pirated versions, meant that they were designed to be serviced and repaired by humans, closer to two meters in length than twenty-five.

It made sense for a colony to use cheap pirated equipment as long as they had no trouble with it.