Piracy
Piracy , noun
[Compare Late Latin piratia, Greek {not transcribed}. See Pirate.]
1.
The act or crime of a pirate.
2.
(Common Law) Robbery on the high seas; the taking of property from others on the open sea by open violence; without lawful authority, and with intent to steal; -- a crime answering to robbery on land.
By statute law several other offenses committed on the seas (as trading with known pirates, or engaging in the slave trade) have been made piracy.
3.
Sometimes used, in a quasi-figurative sense, of violation of copyright; but for this, infringement is the correct and preferable term.