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 piracy ['paiәrәsi]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 海盗行为, 海上劫掠, 剽窃, 著作权侵害, 非法翻印

[法] 海盗行为, 海上掠夺, 海盗罪




    piracy
    [ noun ]
    1. hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts; taking a ship or plane away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it

    2. <noun.act>
      air piracy
    3. the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own

    4. <noun.act>


    Piracy \Pi"ra*cy\, n.; pl. {Piracies}. [Cf. LL. piratia, Gr. ?.
    See {Pirate}.]
    1. The act or crime of a pirate.

    2. (Common Law) Robbery on the high seas; the taking of
    property from others on the open sea by open violence;
    without lawful authority, and with intent to steal; -- a
    crime answering to robbery on land.

    Note: By statute law several other offenses committed on the
    seas (as trading with known pirates, or engaging in the
    slave trade) have been made piracy.

    3. ``Sometimes used, in a quasi-figurative sense, of
    violation of copyright; but for this, infringement is the
    correct and preferable term.'' --Abbott.

    1. Valenti called for the electronics industry to join in the battle against film piracy and illegal copying.
    2. He said he defected because he "detested the brutality of communism." Government spokesman Shaw Yu-ming said at a news conference that authorities were investigating the air piracy.
    3. Moreover, only 20 percent of the 300 piracy cases filed in 1989 involved American and other foreign films, he said.
    4. The U.N. Commissioner for Refugees estimated that of a million and a half boat people, more than half died on high seas or of piracy in the Gulf of Thailand.
    5. In the murder and air piracy trial Monday, the captain of the hijacked jetliner, John Testrake, testified that he believed Hamadi fired the shot that killed Stethem aboard the aircraft.
    6. That means a better educated work force, stronger laws to protect American inventions from piracy by foreign firms.
    7. It is our conviction that the American people now possess the military strength and the political will to defeat Saddam's unrepentant piracy.
    8. Intellectual Property The president is directed to act against countries that permit piracy of U.S. "intellectual property."
    9. Mohammed Ali, 23, is standing trial on charges of air piracy and murder in connection with the 1985 TWA hijacking in which U.S. Navy diver Robert Stetham was killed.
    10. The U.S. will then be in a stronger position to pressure other countries through multilateral treaties or other means to protect American-marks and business names from piracy abroad.
    11. Hamadi, a Lebanese Shiite Moslem who is charged with air piracy and murder, admits he was one of the hijackers, but denies he shot Stethem.
    12. Mohammed Hamadi, 24, is being tried in West Germany for air piracy and murder in connection with the 1985 hijack of a TWA jetliner to Beirut.
    13. Mohammed Ali Hamadi, 24, is on trial in Frankfurt, West Germany, on charges of air piracy and murder in the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jetliner to Beirut.
    14. The independent station Radio Metropole said at least five cases of "piracy" were reported after people tried to seize sailboats and small cargo ships in the harbors of Port-au-Prince, Petit Goave, Les Cayes and Jeremie.
    15. Mr Phil Collins, the British rock star, admits in a recent IFPI publicity video that piracy has not seriously undermined his lifestyle.
    16. It was the first known case this year of piracy against boat people off Malaysia's coast.
    17. But with half of the nation's estimated 2.8 million dish owners still receiving their signals through illegal decoders, officials are planning a crackdown on piracy to try to boost their industry's image.
    18. Similarly, strengthening rules to protect against patent and copyright piracy could pump $60 billion annually into U.S. corporate coffers, the administration estimates.
    19. Computer software, movies, video games, books - all of these are under threat.' The codes which the music industry hopes will limit piracy are allocated by Philips, which holds several of the patent rights for the CD manufacturing process.
    20. The government contends that the new law is not piracy because no profit is allowed, as if the pope were to attach a rider to the Seventh Commandment making its violation depend on personal gain and not the theft itself.
    21. Several Americans who were passengers on the aircraft, which was commandeered to Beirut, are expected to testify against Mohammed Hamadi, charged with murder and air piracy.
    22. Devotees of the rival park charged Harcourt with piracy.
    23. Progress on eliminating counterfeiting and trade piracy is 'encouraging.' Consumer products.
    24. Hamadi, a Lebanese Shiite Moslem, is charged with murder and air piracy in the hijacking of TWA Flight 847, during which 39 Americans were held hostage for 17 days.
    25. The DAT system, as it is known, uses laser technology to permit home recording without any loss of quality, and the record companies fear it will lead to an explosion of home taping and piracy.
    26. However, software publishers are becoming less paranoid about software piracy, particularly by business users who are the main buyers of spreadsheets.
    27. In 1701, William Kidd was hanged in London after he was convicted of piracy and murder.
    28. The researchers didn't intend the program for release, but in a country where software piracy abounds, the virus quickly spread outside the lab on a pirated floppy disk.
    29. The jury found Younis guilty of conspiracy to commit sky piracy, which carries a maximum sentence of five years; seizing hostages, life imprisonment; and hijacking a commercial airliner, 20 years.
    30. Adding to the chances of an agreement among the developed countries is a growing consensus that they face increased product piracy from Third World nations.
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