Meaning of freebooting | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To pilage or plunder; piracy
   uncountable
2. Software piracy, or stealing or unauthorized rehosting of digital content.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The Haghar are well known, even in Europe, for their freebooting propensities.”

“Why do you now refuse⟳ to protect⟳ your own⟳ highway into the Interior, […] and thus put⟳ an end⟳ to the freebooting of the Boers, and of our own⟳ people who joined them?”

“In a short time freebooting assumed all of the routine of a regular business.”

“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⟳.”

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

“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⟳.”

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

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