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Pirated vs Original - What's the difference?

pirated | original |

As a verb pirated

is (pirate).

As a noun original is

original.

pirated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (pirate)
  • Anagrams

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    pirate

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
  • You should be cautious due to the Somali pirates .
  • 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, page 178:
  • And Gnutella, Freenet and other pirate tools will offer plunderings beyond Fanning's fantasies.
  • * 2004 , David Lubar, Dunk , page 20:
  • 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.
  • * 2008 , Martha Vicinus, Caroline Eisner, Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age , page 21:
  • 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.

    Synonyms

    * (one who plunders at sea) buccaneer, corsair, picaroon, privateer, sea rover * (one who breaks intellectual property laws by copying) bootlegger

    Verb

    (pirat)
  • (nautical) To appropriate by piracy, plunder at sea.
  • They pirated the tanker and sailed to a port where they could sell the ship and cargo.
  • (intellectual property) To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of
  • (intellectual property) To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of
  • Not willing to pay full price for the computer game, Heidi pirated a copy.
  • * 2002 , John Sayle Watterson, College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy , page 343
  • In the 1970s cable companies began to pirate some of the football games that the networks had contracted to televise.
  • * 2004 , Wally Wang, Steal this File Sharing Book: What They Won't Tell You about File Sharing
  • College students, with their limited budgets, often pirate software to save their money for buying more important items (like beer).
  • * 2007 , Diane Kresh, Council on Library and Information Resources, The Whole Digital Library Handbook , page 85
  • Many college students now expect to sample, if not outright pirate , movies, music, software, and TV programs.
  • To engage in piracy.
  • He pirated in the Atlantic for years before becoming a privateer for the Queen.

    Synonyms

    * (appropriate by piracy) * (make illegal copy) plagiarize, counterfeit * (engage in piracy)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a well-known trademarked product or work subject to copyright protection and the counterfeit itself.
  • Synonyms

    * pirated

    See also

    * Jolly Roger * skull and crossbones ----

    original

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (label) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
  • , title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
  • (label) First in a series or copies/versions.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].}}
  • (label) Newly created.
  • (label) Fresh, different.
  • (label) Pioneering.
  • (label) Having as its origin.
  • Synonyms

    * (first in series ) initial * autograph * prototype

    Antonyms

    * copy * derivative * reproduction * simile

    Derived terms

    * originally * original sin

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived
  • This manuscript is the original
  • A person with a unique and interesting personality and/or creative talent
  • You’re an original
  • (archaic) An eccentric
  • Synonyms

    * autograph * prototype

    Antonyms

    * copy * remake * reproduction

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