piracy

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From Medieval Latin pīrātia, from Classical Latin pīrāta + ia, or Ancient Greek πειρατεία (peirateía). The sense of “unauthorized duplication” developed in England between 1660 and 1710. The English Crown granted strict monopolies over book printing to specific guilds, such as the Stationers’ Company. Printing a book without permission was framed as an unlawful attack on the Crown’s authority and revenues. By labeling rogue printers as “pirates”, authorized booksellers equated them with sea robbers operating outside the bounds of civilized society. By the passage of the Statute of Anne in 1710, this usage was deeply entrenched in public consciousness as the definitive descriptor for the unauthorized duplication of books, and was later applied seamlessly to new media as they emerged.

110 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: seerowery — robbery at sea
• Arabic: قَرْصَنَة (qarṣana) — robbery at sea
• Asturian: piratería — robbery at sea
• Azerbaijani: dəniz quldurluğu — robbery at sea
• Azerbaijani: piratlıq — robbery at sea
• Belarusian: піра́цтва (piráctva) — robbery at sea
• Bulgarian: пиратство (piratstvo) — robbery at sea
• Catalan: pirateria — robbery at sea
• Chinese Cantonese: 海盜行為 /海盗行为 (hoi2 dou6 haang4 wai4) — robbery at sea
• Chinese Mandarin: 海盜行為 /海盗行为 (hǎidào xíngwéi) — robbery at sea
• Chinese Mandarin: 海盜 /海盗 (hǎidào) — robbery at sea
• Czech: pirátství — robbery at sea
• Danish: pirateri — robbery at sea
• Danish: sørøveri — robbery at sea
• Dutch: zeeroverij — robbery at sea
• Dutch: piraterij — robbery at sea
• Dutch: kaping — robbery at sea
• Esperanto: piratado — robbery at sea
• Finnish: merirosvous — robbery at sea
• French: piraterie — robbery at sea
• French: piratage — robbery at sea
• Galician: piratería — robbery at sea
• Galician: pirataría — robbery at sea
• Georgian: მეკობრეობა (meḳobreoba) — robbery at sea
• German: Piraterie — robbery at sea
• German: Seeräuberei — robbery at sea
• Greek: πειρατεία (peirateía) — robbery at sea
• Gujarati: ચાંચિયાગીરી (cā̃ciyāgīrī) — robbery at sea
• Hebrew: שוד ים — robbery at sea
• Hebrew: שֹׁד יָמִּי — robbery at sea
• Hebrew: פִּירָטִיוּת (piratiyut) — robbery at sea
• Hungarian: kalózkodás — robbery at sea
• Ido: pirateso — robbery at sea
• Italian: pirateria — robbery at sea
• Japanese: 海賊行為 (kaizoku kōi) — robbery at sea
• Japanese: パイラシー (pairashī) — robbery at sea
• Korean: 해적 행위 (haejeok haeng'wi) — robbery at sea
• Korean: 해적질 (haejeokjil) — robbery at sea
• Latin: pīrātica — robbery at sea
• Lithuanian: piratavimas — robbery at sea
• Malay: perlanunan — robbery at sea
• Norman: pirat'tie — robbery at sea
• Polish: piractwo — robbery at sea
• Portuguese: pirataria — robbery at sea
• Punjabi: ਕਜ਼ਾਕੀ (kazākī) — robbery at sea
• Russian: пира́тство (pirátstvo) — robbery at sea
• Somali: burcad badeed — robbery at sea
• Spanish: piratería — robbery at sea
• Swahili: uharamia — robbery at sea
• Swedish: sjöröveri — robbery at sea
• Tagalog: pamimirata — robbery at sea
• Tamil: கடற்கொள்ளை (kaṭaṟkoḷḷai) — robbery at sea
• Thai: โจรกรรม (joo-rá-gam) — robbery at sea
• Turkish: korsanlık — robbery at sea
• Ukrainian: піратство (piratstvo) — robbery at sea
• Danish: kapring — hijacking
• Dutch: kaping — hijacking
• Finnish: kaappaus — hijacking
• Greek: πειρατεία (peirateía) — hijacking
• Hebrew: פִּירָטִיוּת (piratiyut) — hijacking
• Hungarian: eltérítés — hijacking
• Italian: pirateria — hijacking
• Norwegian: kapring — hijacking
• Spanish: piratería — hijacking
• Spanish: secuestro — hijacking
• Swahili: uharamia — hijacking
• Arabic: تَزْوِير (tazwīr) — unauthorized duplication
• Bulgarian: плагиатство (plagiatstvo) — unauthorized duplication
• Catalan: pirateria — unauthorized duplication
• Chinese Mandarin: 著作權侵害 /著作权侵害 (zhùzuòquán qīnhài) — unauthorized duplication
• Chinese Mandarin: 盜版 /盗版 (dàobǎn) — unauthorized duplication
• Danish: piratkopiering — unauthorized duplication
• Dutch: piraterij — unauthorized duplication
• Finnish: piratismi — unauthorized duplication
• French: piratage — unauthorized duplication
• Galician: piratería — unauthorized duplication
• Galician: pirataría — unauthorized duplication
• Georgian: პირატობა (ṗiraṭoba) — unauthorized duplication
• Georgian: კონტრაფაქცია (ḳonṭrapakcia) — unauthorized duplication
• Georgian: საავტორო უფლების დარღვევა (saavṭoro uplebis darɣveva) — unauthorized duplication
• Georgian: გამომცემლის უფლების დარღვევა (gamomcemlis uplebis darɣveva) — unauthorized duplication
• German: Raubkopieren — unauthorized duplication
• German: Raubkopie — unauthorized duplication
• German: Raubdruck — unauthorized duplication
• Greek: πειρατεία (peirateía) — unauthorized duplication
• Hungarian: kalózkodás — unauthorized duplication
• Indonesian: pembajakan — unauthorized duplication
• Italian: pirateria — unauthorized duplication
• Japanese: 著作権侵害 (chosakuken shingai) — unauthorized duplication
• Japanese: パイラシー (pairashī) — unauthorized duplication
• Japanese: 偽版 (gihan) — unauthorized duplication
• Japanese: 海賊版 (kaizokuban) — unauthorized duplication
• Polish: piractwo — unauthorized duplication
• Portuguese: pirataria — unauthorized duplication
• Russian: пира́тство (pirátstvo) — unauthorized duplication
• Russian: наруше́ние а́вторского пра́ва (narušénije ávtorskovo práva) — unauthorized duplication
• Russian: контрафа́кция (kontrafákcija) — unauthorized duplication
• Russian: пира́тская ко́пия (pirátskaja kópija) — unauthorized duplication
• Spanish: piratería — unauthorized duplication
• Spanish: falsificación — unauthorized duplication
• Swedish: piratkopiering — unauthorized duplication
• Tagalog: pamimirata — unauthorized duplication
• Turkish: korsanlık — unauthorized duplication
• Ukrainian: піра́тство (pirátstvo) — unauthorized duplication
• Dutch: piraterij — unlicensed broadcasting
• Dutch: zendpiraterij — unlicensed broadcasting
• Dutch: etherpiraterij — unlicensed broadcasting
• Finnish: piraattiradiotoiminta — unlicensed broadcasting
• Greek: πειρατεία (peirateía) — unlicensed broadcasting
• Turkish: korsan yayın — unlicensed broadcasting