Depredator vs Pirate - What's the difference?
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One who depredates, or commits depredation.
*1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy :
*:An open heath, a close plantation, were alike subjects of apprehension; and the whistle of a shepherd lad was instantly converted into the signal of a depredator .
*{{quote-book, year=1836, author=Robert Huish, title=Lander's Travels, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Orders were now given to fire on all depredators , royal or plebeian; and after a few shots had been discharged without producing any fatal effects, the thieves hid themselves amongst the rocks, and were merely seen peeping through the crevices. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, title=The Wrecker, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The sight of her old neighbourly depredator shivering at the door in tatters, the very oddity of his appeal, touched a soft spot in the spinster's heart. }}
A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels.
One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission
* 2001 , unidentified insider, quoted in John Alderman, Sonic Boom: Napster, MP3, and the New Pioneers of Music , Da Capo Press, ISBN 978-0-7382-0777-3,
* 2004 , David Lubar, Dunk , page 20:
* 2008 , Martha Vicinus, Caroline Eisner, Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age , page 21:
(nautical) To appropriate by piracy, plunder at sea.
(intellectual property) To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of
(intellectual property) To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of
* 2002 , John Sayle Watterson, College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy , page 343
* 2004 , Wally Wang, Steal this File Sharing Book: What They Won't Tell You about File Sharing
* 2007 , Diane Kresh, Council on Library and Information Resources, The Whole Digital Library Handbook , page 85
To engage in piracy.
Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a well-known trademarked product or work subject to copyright protection and the counterfeit itself.
Depredator is a related term of pirate.
As nouns the difference between depredator and pirate
is that depredator is one who depredates, or commits depredation while pirate is (sports) someone connected with any of a number of sports teams known as the , as a fan, player, coach etc.depredator
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(en noun)- You should be cautious due to the Somali pirates .
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- 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.
- If we untangle the claim that technology has turned Johnny Teenager into a pirate , what turns out to be fueling it is the idea that if'' Johnny Teenager were to share his unauthorized copy with two million of his closest friends the ''effect on a record company would be pretty similar to the effect of some CD factory's creating two million CDs and selling them cheap.
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* (one who plunders at sea) buccaneer, corsair, picaroon, privateer, sea rover * (one who breaks intellectual property laws by copying) bootleggerVerb
(pirat)- They pirated the tanker and sailed to a port where they could sell the ship and cargo.
- 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.
- College students, with their limited budgets, often pirate software to save their money for buying more important items (like beer).
- Many college students now expect to sample, if not outright pirate , movies, music, software, and TV programs.
- He pirated in the Atlantic for years before becoming a privateer for the Queen.