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Movie theaters are losing more and more revenue due to internet piracy.
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I'm a British naval officer and I have to report an act of piracy.
Why, that's piracy.
This is piracy, kidnapping.
The slave trade is not illegal, my dear Isabella, piracy is.
A ship, a crew, men without a country sailing under the only colors left to them. the black flag of piracy.
They're just honest average citizens who appreciate a wee bit of piracy.
They've driven me back to piracy. and another pardon from the King would be a miracle indeed.
Raise your hands and take again the oath of piracy.
Mutiny, treason and piracy.
There was a Thomas Larrabee who was hung for piracy, and there was a Benjamin Larrabee who was a slave trader, and it was my great-great-uncle Joshua Larrabee who was shot in Indiana while attempting to rob a train.
Why, that's plain uncivilized piracy.
The court finds that mutiny and piracy have been committed against His Majesty's Navy.
Stolen by open piracy!
Piracy?
Therefore, we do here and now band ourselves. into a brotherhood of buccaneers. to practice the trade of piracy on the high seas.
I've been sent to try to blot out all this piracy, my dear.
Mutiny and piracy will be rampant in the fleet.
It's anybody who steals, whether it's piracy or robbing women.
Piracy is punishable with death.
But that's not piracy, Skipper. That's business.
It will give piracy a bad name.
But this is sheer piracy.
Thomas Larrabee was hung for piracy.
A dramatically unique venture in piracy.
From Java to Fiji he's wanted for piracy, for slavery, for mutiny for rape, murder, even some things that are not mentioned in the Bible.
At this very moment, our Ambassador to the United Nations is protesting to the Secretary General about the high-handed act of piracy.
But it is not mine to cringe under piracy without striking a blow.
Piracy's a serious charge, Mr. Randolph.
Piracy is no private matter, Randolph.
If Captain Paxton is charged with piracy, I will bring him to trial.
In addition to piracy, you've left yourself open to charges of violating flight regulations, entering hostile space and endangering the lives of others as well as your own.
So you think he's turned to piracy?
You know this is an act of piracy punishable by death under interplanetary law?
The act of piracy could only succeed with your involvement, and your men's.
Captain, your cook was in charge of the act of piracy.
A bit of piracy, we agreed.
Yeah, piracy, not lunacy.
He seems to have started as a caterer and then went on to international piracy.
This is piracy!
News and current affairs
Rows over product safety and intellectual piracy could all too easily fuel calls for tough new trade limits.
These options include developing counter-networks to meet networked security threats such as terrorism and proliferation of nuclear, chemical, or biological materials, as well as highly decentralized threats such as piracy.
The sharp divide between producers and consumers of knowledge began only about 300 years ago, when book printers secured royal protection for their trade in the face of piracy in a rapidly expanding literary market.
BEIJING: China now appears to be the country with the most notorious reputation for corporate piracy.
Today, Thai businesses are accused of piracy as often as Chinese companies.
Piracy, however, should not be used to tar an entire country's economy or business structures as criminal.
Containing piracy then becomes a matter debated in political assemblies, in the media and - most importantly - in the courts.
In recent years, Chinese companies have been suffering piracy related problems just as their foreign counterparts have.
Foreign companies will no doubt also benefit from this new commitment to stamp out piracy.
In any case, no one should exaggerate the problem of piracy.
Copying the idea and basic design of a product is not piracy.
Other peoples and countries find themselves on an unequal footing in this digital age, so the problem of piracy is not likely to disappear.
Last year, we mounted EUNAVFOR, our first-ever naval operation, to combat piracy in the waters off Somalia.
Our relationship has evolved from a predominantly economic one into one that includes fighting terrorism, piracy, and organized crime, as well as many other issues.
Universal jurisdiction originated in Greek and Roman times in the struggle against piracy.
And, like ocean piracy and airplane hijacking, cyber-crime cannot be allowed to go unpunished if we are to safeguard our common assets and collective interests.
Important debates - such as freedom versus security, privacy versus piracy, and cyberspace's impact on democracy - are far from being resolved.
Offshore, piracy seriously disrupts aid being brought in by ships.
The next is to develop a comprehensive strategy, in conjunction with the UN Security Council, to eliminate piracy in Somali waters.
Similarly, piracy in the Gulf of Guinea and the Indian Ocean, particularly along the coast of Somalia, threatens Europe's maritime activities, including its extensive sea-borne commerce.
Indeed, growing concerns over piracy led to the launch in 2008 of the EU's first naval response within the framework of the Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP) - Operation Atalanta.
Britain has deviated from this principle only once, when it agreed to participate in the Atalanta anti-piracy operation off the Horn of Africa - probably because it was placed in command.
Developing countries also continue to worry about bio-piracy--the patenting by Western firms of traditional foods and drugs.
These could include, for example, efforts to organize viable alternatives to piracy for the tens of thousands of Chinese companies that currently earn a living from it.
But Somaliland's strategic position near the world's major oil-transport routes, now plagued by piracy, and chaos in the country's south, mean that independence should no longer be dismissed out of hand.