software pirate

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• pirate — pi‧rate [ˈpaɪərət ǁ ˈpaɪrət] noun [countable] LAW 1. a person or organization that dishonestly copies and sells films, tapes etc for which the copyright (= legal ownership) belongs to others: • Manufacturers fear that the city may emerge as a new …   Financial and business terms

• Pirate decryption — most often refers to the reception of compromised pay TV or pay radio signals without authorization from the original broadcaster. The term pirate in this case is used in the sense of copyright infringement and has little or nothing to do with… …   Wikipedia

• Software cracking — is the modification of software to remove or disable features which are considered undesirable by the person cracking the software, usually related to protection methods: copy protection, trial/demo version, serial number, hardware key, date… …   Wikipedia

• pirate — pi·rate 1 / pī rət/ n: a person who commits piracy pirate 2 vb pi·rat·ed, pi·rat·ing vt: to take or appropriate by piracy; esp: to copy, distribute, or use without authorization esp. in infringement of copyright the pirated software piratin …   Law dictionary

• pirate — 01. The old man told an amazing tale of being kidnapped by [pirates], and taken as a slave to the Caribbean. 02. The young boys dreamed of going on a daring adventure to find [pirates ] treasure. 03. Los Cabos, in the southern Baja Peninsula, was …   Grammatical examples in English

• pirate — I UK [ˈpaɪrət] / US noun [countable] Word forms pirate : singular pirate plural pirates 1) someone who attacks ships while they are sailing in order to steal things from them 2) a) someone who illegally makes and sells copies of computer programs …   English dictionary

• software — 01. I just bought some computer [software] which allows me to figure out my income tax in about half an hour. 02. Rick Cook once joked that programming today is a race between [software] engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot proof… …   Grammatical examples in English

• pirate — pi|rate1 [ˈpaıərət US ˈpaırət] n [Date: 1200 1300; : Latin; Origin: pirata, from Greek peirates, from peiran to attack ] 1.) someone who sails on the seas, attacking other boats and stealing things from them →↑piracy 2.) someone who dishonestly… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• pirate — pi|rate1 [ paırət ] noun count 1. ) someone who attacks ships while they are sailing in order to steal things from them 2. ) someone who illegally makes and sells copies of computer programs, books, videos, or CDs a ) only before noun made by… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• pirate — 1. noun 1) pirates boarded the ship Syn: freebooter, marauder, raider; historical privateer; archaic buccaneer, corsair 2) software pirates Syn: copyright infringer, plagiarist, plagiarizer 2. verb designers may pirate good …   Thesaurus of popular words

• pirate — pi·rate || paɪərÉ™t adj. of who commits sea robbery; illegally copied (Computers) n. one who commits sea robbery; one who steals copyrighted or patented materials; one who illegally copies or uses computer software (Computers) v. steal… …   English contemporary dictionary