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- noun Plural form of
pirater .
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Examples
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If they put their efforts into making the content as accessible and convenient as possible, they will whittle down the piraters to only the stubborn few who do it on ideological grounds.
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This is exactly the same purpose of mentioning “bandwidth hogs” in a response to copyright protection methods …. the industry seeks to limit bandwidth of consumers to therefore push out piraters who are high users of bandwidth (unfortunately there are also others like myself who are also high users … having nothing to do with piracy)
Bits Debate: Responding to Readers on Filtering - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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File sharers and other piraters of online and offline media were and are being prosecuted and sued civilly.
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My guess is that the mentality common amoung piraters of iPhone apps is that since they ARE only $.99, it wont make a difference whether they buy or not.
Journerdism | Will Sullivan's Stompin' ground for journalists and nerds. 2009
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ROBERTS: I love the fact that the Malaysian piraters put a hit out on the dogs.
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Piracy of Adobe's pricey, top-tier software has been a problem, so this cloud version might appeal to would-be piraters to pony up.
Wired Top Stories Mike Barton 2012
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I love PC gaming more then anything but these days no one wants to make JUST pc triple A titles because hackers and piraters steal everything.
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The music industry or the software industry would likely want to use such a forum as a mechanism to shut down music piraters or forcing users to cough up some cash.
MSDN Blogs 2009
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The music industry or the software industry would likely want to use such a forum as a mechanism to shut down music piraters or forcing users to cough up some cash.
MSDN Blogs 2009
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The music industry or the software industry would likely want to use such a forum as a mechanism to shut down music piraters or forcing users to cough up some cash.
MSDN Blogs 2009
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