pirate

A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.

You should be cautious due to the Somali pirates.

An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels.

The third day out a pirate (Terebinthian by her rig) overhauled us, but when she saw us well armed she stood off after some shooting of arrows on either part—

One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission.

And Gnutella, Freenet and other pirate tools will offer plunderings beyond Fanning's fantasies.

They had watches that said Gucci or Rolex on them even though it was obvious they'd come straight here from some pirate factory in China.

A bird which practises kleptoparasitism.

A kind of marble in children's games.

Most of the time it went fine; some of his classmates had so many marbles they could have opened up their own shop in smurfs, pirates, purple aggies and pink panthers.

To appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea.

They pirated the tanker and sailed to a port where they could sell the ship and cargo.

To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of.

If a book is pirated there is a remedy for the author and publisher; if a photograph or an engraving is made of a picture without permission the law protects the painter.

To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of.

Not willing to pay full price for the computer game, Heidi pirated a copy.

In the 1970s cable companies began to pirate some of the football games that the networks had contracted to televise.

To engage in piracy.

He pirated in the Atlantic for years before becoming a privateer for the Queen.

To entice an employee to switch from a competing company to one's own.

Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a trademarked product or copyrighted work, or of the counterfeit itself.