pirated in English

verb
1
use or reproduce (another's work) for profit without permission, usually in contravention of patent or copyright.
he sold pirated tapes of Hollywood blockbusters
synonyms:stealplagiarizepoachcopy illegallyreproduce illegallyappropriatebootlegcribliftrip offpinch
2
rob or plunder (a ship).
Then we are going to have to pirate every dead ship we come across for a long while.

Use "pirated" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "pirated" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "pirated", or refer to the context using the word "pirated" in the English Dictionary.

1. He was arrested for selling pirated software.

2. It's a pirated wireless signal, so touch and go.

3. Pirated copies of music tapes are flooding the market.

4. A school technician pirated anything from video nasties to computer games.

5. The black markets proffer Levis, pirated rave music and electric kettles.

6. Pirates, who were denied the chance to sell their pirated copies on the pavements and streets, managed to sell through booksellers benefiting from Banderoled pirated copies.

7. Mr Dong prudently refrained from offering the court a pirated copy.

8. 6 Don't kill blockbusters. Choose original DVDs over pirated ones. Big flix.

9. The police are making a concentrated effort to confiscate pirated books across city.

10. Cinema HD is a safe application as it doesn’t show any illegal pirated content

11. Cinemas were old and decrepit , productions were clunkers and pirated videotapes and discs proliferated.

12. With the pirated data there is absolutely no way of determining how the data has been processed.

13. The suit claims Apple pirated key elements of Xerox software for its Lisa and Macintosh user interfaces.

14. " We believe that most of the software used in Zap centres is pirated , " says DCP Singh .

15. NIGHTMARE PLANET MURRAY LEINSTER It was pirated, translated into French, and subsequently Anthologized in almost every collection of English farces

16. Because this isn't just the hypothetical retail value of some pirated movies that we're talking about, but this is actual economic losses.

17. Numerous editions appeared under various titles. Many of them were pirated (eg, Waldie's Select Circulating Library edition, Philadelphia, 1833), and many were abridged.

18. In addition, companies often either fail to expand or are forced to reduce their workforces due to the sales lost to counterfeit or pirated goods

19. In addition, companies often either fail to expand or are forced to reduce their workforces as a result of sales lost to counterfeit or pirated goods

20. In addition, companies often either fail to expand or are forced to reduce their workforces as a result of sales lost to counterfeit or pirated goods.

21. Such was its huge success that several official and pirated editions quickly followed, as well as condensed versions and translations in German, Dutch and English.

22. By 19 Lawrence himself possessed a pirated edition, a "filthy-looking book...containing my [his] forged signature by the little boy of the piratical family" (Lawrence .

23. They're low-key, homegrown blogs that don't host illicitly copied music, but do provide links to third-party sites, or storage lockers, such as Megashare, where pirated music is stored.

24. In Jakarta, shopping malls such as ITC Roxy Mas and ITC Mangga Dua were havens for vendors of pirated CDs of Taiwanese singers and DVDs of films from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

25. Most notable case is the one of antenna companies that have been providing for years pirated TV signals of European and American programmes and infringing the rights of the licensed broadcasting company, Macau Cable TV.

26. • Available data suggests current annual global revenues from illicit criminal activities include: $100B to $300B from drug trafficking; $9B from automobile theft in the US and Europe; $7B from alien smuggling; widely disparate figures (i.e., $1B-$20B) for theft of intellectual property through pirated videos, software and other commodities

27. • Available data suggest current annual global revenues from illicit criminal activities include: $100B to 300B from drug trafficking; toxic and other hazardous waste dumping; $9B from automobile theft in the US and Europe; $7B from alien smuggling; widely disparate figures (i.e., $1-20B) for theft of intellectual property through pirated videos, software and other commodities