different between freebooting vs filibusterism

English

Etymology

From freebooter (“a type of pirate”).

Noun

freebooting (uncountable)

1. Piracy or plundering.
2. (computing) Software piracy, or stealing or unauthorized rehosting of digital content.
   • 1982, InfoWorld (volume 4, number 15, page 30)

     Your recent issue about the problems of electronic software piracy or "freebooting" — if you will — was excellent and timely. However, I wonder if both sides have failed to understand the social significance of the struggle.

   • 1994, United States. Congress. Senate, Country reports on economic policy and trade practices

     Freebooting of broadcast satellite signals may exist privately, but we have no evidence of illegal signal capture being commercialized any longer.

   • 1998, InfoWorld (volume 20, page 79)

     Many felt that the software companies are really the ones who ought to be called pirates. […] No wonder, the reader said, that customers are tempted to a little freebooting of their own.

   • 2014, Brady Haran, Hello Internet: Episode #5: Freebooting:

     Oh those freebooters taking our videos! I'm sick of it. Freebooting, you know, it's a serious issue!

Translations

Adjective

freebooting (not comparable)

1. Engaged in piracy or plunder

Translations

Verb

freebooting

1. present participle of freeboot

References

English

Etymology

filibuster +? -ism

Noun

filibusterism (uncountable)

1. (dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.
2. (US) The practice of forcefully and unauthorisedly acquiring control of foreign land.
   • 1858 April, Mr. Buchanan's Administration, in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Number 6,

     All this was simply weakness; but in turning from the conduct of the Finances by the administration, to consider its management of Filibusterism, we pass from the consideration of acts of mere debility to the consideration of acts which have a color of duplicity in them. On the Filibusters, as on the Finances, the First Annual Message of the President was outspoken and forcible. It characterized the past and proposed doings of William Walker and his crew, as the common sense and common conscience of the world had already characterised them, as nothing short of piracy and murder.

   • 1859, Orestes Augustus Brownson (editor), Politics at Home and Abroad, in Brownson's Quarterly Review, Volume 4, page 214,

     Conservatism has come to mean, with us, filibusterism, the acquisition of our neighbor's land, the extension of negro slavery, the reopening of the slave trade, and placing under the ban of society every publicist who raises his voice against such conservatism.
3. The practice of delaying legislation by filibuster or other obstructive tactics.