"freebooting" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1853, James Richardson, Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2:",
          "text": "The Haghar are well known, even in Europe, for their freebooting propensities.",
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          "ref": "1900, Josephine Elizabeth Butler, Native Races and the War:",
          "text": "Why do you now refuse to protect your own highway into the Interior, […] and thus put an end to the freebooting of the Boers, and of our own people who joined them?",
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        {
          "ref": "1921, Howard Pyle, Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates:",
          "text": "In a short time freebooting assumed all of the routine of a regular business.",
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        "Piracy or plundering."
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          "sense": "piracy or plundering",
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          "word": "vrijbuiterij"
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          "sense": "piracy or plundering",
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          "word": "piratería"
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        {
          "ref": "1982, InfoWorld, volume 4, number 15, page 30:",
          "text": "Your recent issue about the problems of electronic software piracy or \"freebooting\" — if you will — was excellent and timely. However, I wonder if both sides have failed to understand the social significance of the struggle.",
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        {
          "ref": "1994, United States. Congress. Senate, Country reports on economic policy and trade practices:",
          "text": "Freebooting of broadcast satellite signals may exist privately, but we have no evidence of illegal signal capture being commercialized any longer.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, InfoWorld, volume 20, page 79:",
          "text": "Many felt that the software companies are really the ones who ought to be called pirates. […] No wonder, the reader said, that customers are tempted to a little freebooting of their own.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Brady Haran, Hello Internet: Episode #5: Freebooting",
          "text": "Oh those freebooters taking our videos! I'm sick of it. Freebooting, you know, it's a serious issue!"
        }
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        "Software piracy, or stealing or unauthorized rehosting of digital content."
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          "text": "In one respect, as I hinted above, it is only too good, so sure of success, I mean, that you are no longer secure of any respect to your property in our freebooting America.",
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          "text": "The Haghar are well known, even in Europe, for their freebooting propensities.",
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          "ref": "1900, Josephine Elizabeth Butler, Native Races and the War:",
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          "ref": "1921, Howard Pyle, Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates:",
          "text": "In a short time freebooting assumed all of the routine of a regular business.",
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          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, United States. Congress. Senate, Country reports on economic policy and trade practices:",
          "text": "Freebooting of broadcast satellite signals may exist privately, but we have no evidence of illegal signal capture being commercialized any longer.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, InfoWorld, volume 20, page 79:",
          "text": "Many felt that the software companies are really the ones who ought to be called pirates. […] No wonder, the reader said, that customers are tempted to a little freebooting of their own.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2014, Brady Haran, Hello Internet: Episode #5: Freebooting",
          "text": "Oh those freebooters taking our videos! I'm sick of it. Freebooting, you know, it's a serious issue!"
        }
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