The Haghar are well known, even in Europe, for their freebooting propensities.1853, James Richardson, Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2:
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?1900, Josephine Elizabeth Butler, Native Races and the War:
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In a short time freebooting assumed all of the routine of a regular business.1921, Howard Pyle, Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences 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.1982, InfoWorld, volume 4, number 15, page 30:
Freebooting of broadcast satellite signals may exist privately, but we have no evidence of illegal signal capture being commercialized any longer.1994, United States. Congress. Senate, Country reports on economic policy and trade practices:
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Many felt that the software companies are really the ones who ought to be called pirates. […] No wonder, the reader said, that customers are tempted to a little freebooting of their own.1998, InfoWorld, volume 20, page 79:
Oh those freebooters taking our videos! I'm sick of it. Freebooting, you know, it's a serious issue!2014, Brady Haran, Hello Internet: Episode #5: Freebooting
freebooting
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Etymology From freebooter (“a type of pirate”).
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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.1843, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.: