freebooting

noun 2adj 1

Definitions

noun

1

To pilage or plunder; piracy

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?

2

Software piracy, or stealing or unauthorized rehosting of digital content.

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.

adj

1

Engaged in piracy or plunder

In one respect, as I hinted above, it is only too good, so sure of success, I mean, that you are no longer secure of any respect to your property in our freebooting America.

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