0 present participle of pirate --
1 to illegally copy a computer program, music, a film, etc. and sell it --
Therefore, the reduced period of copyright seems to me to be a provision for allowing "pirating" of a particular recording after twenty-five years.
What we have instead is the pirating of scholastic talent from the maintained sector.
Such pirating is totally unfair to those who produce cassettes and will soon stop the business.
Up until now they have been pirating, copying or stealing intellectual patents and not paying any price for them, and so they have benefited.
How would he make a distinction between private copying for individual use and illegal pirating for sale?
In shipping this is no more than the equivalent of the pirating of patents and trade marks.
The extent of pirating and counterfeiting might make record companies decide that it is not worth making certain records in the first place.
Throughout the entire commercial and industrial life of this country, people are counterfeiting products or pirating products before they are released.
