different between freebooting vs piracy

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa???si/

Noun

piracy (countable and uncountable, plural piracies)

1. (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

2. A similar violation of international law, such as hijacking of an aircraft.
3. The unauthorized duplication of goods protected by intellectual property law.

4. The operation of an unlicensed radio or television station.
5. (ornithology) Kleptoparasitism.

Synonyms

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

Translations

See also

• pirate
• pirate radio