piracy

EnglishEdit

The flag of Edward England, a well-known symbol of piracy

piracy (countable and uncountable, plural piracies)

(nautical) Robbery at sea, a violation of international law; taking a ship away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it.
Synonym: pirateship

How should the international community respond to Somali piracy?
A similar violation of international law, such as hijacking of an aircraft.
The unauthorized duplication of goods protected by intellectual property law.
Some video game consoles use specially designed cartridges to make software piracy more difficult.
The operation of an unlicensed radio or television station.
(ornithology) Kleptoparasitism.

(robbery at sea): buccaneerism
(breaking intellectual property law by making unauthorized copies): bootlegging, file sharing

robbery at sea

Arabic: قَرْصَنَة‎ f (qarṣana)
Asturian: piratería f
Bulgarian: пиратство n (piratstvo)
Catalan: pirateria f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 海盜行為 (hoi² dou⁶ haang⁴ wai⁴)

Mandarin: 海盜行為 (zh), 海盗行为 (zh) (hǎidào xíngwéi) (actions), 海盜 (zh), 海盗 (zh) (hǎidào) (pirates)
Czech: pirátství n
Danish: pirateri n, sørøveri n
Dutch: zeeroverij (nl) f, piraterij (nl) f, kaping (nl) f
Esperanto: piratado
Finnish: merirosvous (fi)
French: piraterie (fr) f, piratage (fr) m
Galician: piratería f, pirataría f
Georgian: მეკობრეობა (meḳobreoba)
German: Piraterie (de) f, Seeräuberei f
Greek: πειρατεία (el) f (peirateía)
Gujarati: ચાંચિયાગીરી (cā̃ciyāgīrī)
Hebrew: שוד ים‎ (he) m (shod yam), שֹׁד יָמִּי‎ (he) m (shod yami), פִּירָטִיוּת‎ (he) f (piratiyut)

hijacking

unauthorized duplication

German: Raubkopieren n; Raubkopie (de) f, Raubdruck (de) m (pirated edition)
Greek: πειρατεία (el) f (peirateía)
Hungarian: kalózkodás (hu)
Italian: pirateria (it) f
Japanese: 著作権侵害 (ちょさくけんしんがい, chosakuken shingai), パイレーシ (pairēshi); 偽版 (ぎはん, gihan)　海賊版 (かいぞくばん, kaizokuban)　(pirated edition)
Polish: piractwo (pl) n
Portuguese: pirataria (pt) f
Russian: пира́тство (ru) n (pirátstvo), наруше́ние а́вторского пра́ва n (narušénije ávtorskovo práva), контрафа́кция (ru) f (kontrafákcija); пира́тская ко́пия f (pirátskaja kópija) (pirated edition)
Spanish: piratería (es) f
Swedish: piratkopiering (sv) c
Turkish: korsanlık (tr)

unlicensed broadcasting