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means The act of stealing or illegally reproducing someone else's work, goods, or intellectual property without permission.

from From Latin 'pirata,' borrowed from Greek 'peiratēs,' meaning 'one who attacks' or 'brigand' — itself from 'peiran,' meaning 'to attempt' or 'to attack,' sharing a root with 'peril.' The word originally belonged entirely to the sea: sailors who attacked and plundered ships. It drifted ashore and into the abstract by the 17th-18th century, when printers and publishers started using it for unauthorized reprints of books — stealing someone's work the way a pirate ship stole cargo, just without the cannons.