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Piracy vs Turboload - What's the difference?

piracy | turboload |

As nouns the difference between piracy and turboload

is that piracy is (nautical) robbery at sea, a violation of international law; taking a ship away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it while turboload is (computing|dated) a software mechanism that loads data from cassette tape more rapidly than usual, saving time and making software piracy more difficult.

piracy

English

Noun

  • (nautical) Robbery at sea, a violation of international law; taking a ship away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it.
    • How shoud the international community respond to Somali piracy ?
  • A similar violation of international law, such as hijacking of an aircraft.
  • The unauthorized duplication of goods protected by intellectual property law (e.g. copying software unlawfully).
  • The operation of an unlicensed radio or television station.

    • Synonyms

    * (breaking intellectual property law by making unauthorized copies) bootlegging, file sharing

    See also

    * pirate * pirate radio

    turboload

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing, dated) A software mechanism that loads data from cassette tape more rapidly than usual, saving time and making software piracy more difficult.
  • * 1985 , Speed Trials'' (in ''Your Spectrum issue 14, May 1985)
    • Even headerless LOADs will work with the Sprint, though be warned, it can't cope with the now common turboload .
  • * 1997 , "Jason", c64 Server64 Question'' (on newsgroup ''comp.sys.cbm )
    • I don't think the Server64 is being taken any further, the programmer was losing interest when I emailed him a few months ago and it can't accept turboloads ...

    Derived terms

    * turboloader