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Coded Anti-Piracy, an anti-copyright infringement technology for motion pictures


1698 in England

Piracy Act ("An Act for the more effectuall Suppressions of Piracy") passed.

1861 in the United Kingdom

Criminal law consolidation Acts: The death penalty is limited to murder, embezzlement, piracy, high treason and to acts of arson perpetrated upon docks or ammunition depots; the age of consent is codified as twelve.

1998 in piracy

The London-based International Maritime Bureau reported worldwide acts of piracy had fallen to 198 as compared to 247 from the previous year as well as 67 deaths.

2009 in piracy

In 2009, much greater international resolution has resulted in more control of piracy than in the prior decade, although many pirates still operate from Somalia.

71 BC

Marcus Antonius is defeated by the Cretans, who has made an alliance with the pirates, he is compelled to conclude a humiliating peace.

Anti Piracy Maritime Security Solutions

Anti Piracy Maritime Security Solutions (APMSS) of Poole, Dorset, England is a British company established in 2008.

Apocalypse Production Crew

On August 21, 2003, Mark Shumaker (known by the pseudonym markalso), pleaded guilty to violating copyright laws and became the first federal criminal prosecution of someone who specialized in music piracy after having been raided in Operation Buccaneer.

Aydıncık, Mersin

During the Hellenistic era (1st century BC) Celenderis was in a political coalition with the kingdom of the Ptolemys of Egypt, and faced severe difficulties from piracy.

Blackbeard the Pirate

The film follows British Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard (Keith Andes), who sets out to earn a reward by proving that privateer Henry Morgan (Torin Thatcher) also engages in piracy.

Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony

In early February 2013, the production team announced that due to high rates of piracy of the digital version within the brony community, they ceased further work on these features, stating "that investing any more time and energy would be not be worthwhile".

Claire Jowitt

Claire Jowitt is an academic writing on race, cross-gender, piracy, identity, empire and performance.

COICA

Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, proposed legislation in the United States Senate that allows the blocking the domain names of web sites accused of piracy

Combined Task Force 151

On January 8, 2009, at the United States Fifth Fleet headquarters in Manama, Bahrain, Vice Admiral William E. Gortney, USN, announced the formation of CTF-151 to combat the piracy threat off Somalia, with Rear Admiral Terence E. McKnight in command.

Don't Copy That Floppy

The video for the campaign, starring M. E. Hart as “MC Double Def DP,” was filmed at Cardozo High School in Washington, D.C. and produced by cooperation between the SPA, the Educational Section Anti-Piracy Committee, and the Copyright Protection Fund, in association with Vilardi Films.

Fishing Without Nets

The plot tells the story of a group of fishermen in Somalia who are lured into piracy.

Frak!

On the Electron, this 'piracy' tune was replaced by the tune Yakety Sax, the theme from 'Benny Hill'.

Frolic-class gunvessel

A few months later, Frolic was one of the ships that blockaded the mouth of the Klang River in Malaysia in an attempt to suppress piracy supported by the local sultan.

GD-ROM

Developed by Yamaha, Sega intended to use the format to curb piracy common to standard compact discs and to offer increased storage capacity.

Ingham incident

First the captain sailed past Galveston for Matagorda, Texas but heavy seas prevented him from entering so Jones headed for the Brazos River where on June 3 he was informed by a local pilot that "several Acts of Piracy" had been committed by the Montezuma and that there were no slave ships in the area.

Internet censorship in India

On 21 July 2011, all file hosting websites were blocked by ISPs to prevent piracy of the film Singham, causing anger amongst Internet users.

John Nutt

Tried and convicted for piracy, Nutt was about to be hanged when George Calvert, then Secretary of State, intervened on his behalf having been a friend and associate of his while Nutt and his family were living in the Avalon Colony.

Min-Liang Tan

Brian Fargo replies that Min-Liang Tan has more than made up for his piracy of the game.

Mohamed Abdi Hassan

In January 2013, Hassan announced in the south-central town of Adado that he had renounced crime, retiring from the piracy business.

Movie4k.to

In 2011, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) classified Movie2k.to as a "notorious market" for piracy in a letter to the United States House of Representatives.

MV Seaman Guard Ohio

The MV Seaman Guard Ohio is a Sierra Leone-flagged fishery patrol vessel (Call Sign: 9LA2125, IMO: 8410691, MMSI: 667004026) owned and operated by AdvanFort, a Virginia (USA) based Private Maritime Security Company (PMSC) that provides commercial anti-piracy protection services to merchant vessels.

MV Sirius Star

The ship received international attention when it was hijacked by Somali pirates (allegedly under the orders of piracy kingpin Mohamed Abdi Hassan) on 15 November 2008, becoming the largest ship ever captured by pirates.

Ocean Shield

Operation Ocean Shield, the NATO contribution to anti-piracy operations off the Horn of Africa from 2009 to present

Olisipo

The city came to be very prosperous through suppression of piracy and technological advances, which allowed a boom in the trade with the newly Roman Provinces of Britannia (particularly Cornwall) and the Rhine, and through the introduction of Roman culture to the tribes living by the river Tagus in the interior of Hispania.

Omar Agha

The Congress of Vienna, which addressed the problem of Christian slaves from Barbary piracy, charged the United Kingdom to negotiate with the Dey of Algiers and the Beys of Tunis and Tripoli.

Persian Gulf campaign of 1809

In February 1806, the young Sultan of Oman, Sa'id II ibn Sultan, signed a treaty at Bandar Abbas promising to bring an end to piracy originating from his territory, but by 1807 the French had installed consulates in Tehran and Muscat and piracy continued unabated with their encouragement.

Peter Leeson

In the wake of the Maersk Alabama hijacking, Leeson's book and numerous articles on the topic of piracy have drawn substantial media attention.

Piracy in the British Virgin Islands

Probably the most famous true story relating to piracy in the Territory revolved around a character named Owen Lloyd.

Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos Iunior

He was, as his brother Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer, Lieutenant of Pompeius Magnus at the campaigns of Asia and against the pirates, from 67 BC to 63 BC.

Razor 1911

The FBI claimed him to still be the leader of Razor at the time when "Operation Buccaneer", an international anti-piracy operation which led to raids at the homes of over 60 piracy suspects worldwide in 2001, was carried out even though NFOs and scene activity at the time points out The Renegade Chemist as actual leader of the group.

SafeDisc

Although the stated use is to prevent piracy, many, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, believe it is used to restrict one's fair-use rights.

Samuel Mason

By 1797, he moved the base of his river piracy further downriver to Cave-in-Rock on the Illinois shore.

Samuel Pechell

In 1823 he returned to active service aboard the frigate HMS Sibylle and operated off Algiers and the Peloponnese, following the surge in piracy caused by the Greek War of Independence.

Sinking of the Petrel

The surviving rebels were eventually sent to Philadelphia in the steamship USS Flag to be charged for piracy but the accusation was not justified and the sailors were taken to Moyamensing Prison for the duration of the war.

Sophie of Pomerania, Duchess of Pomerania

At the death of Eric of Pomerania in 1459, Sophia's husband united Pomerania through the inheritance of Pomerania-Stolp and Pomerania-Rügenwalde by his marriage, while Sophia became the sole possessor of the vast fortune brought by Eric of Pomerania from his former kingdoms's in Scandinavia, as well as the one he had acquired by his piracy activity on Gotland.

South Indian Film Artistes' Association

;Film piracy awareness: President R. Sarathkumar and his wife Raadhika Sarathkumar, who is also the co-producer of the film Jaggubhai, held a press conference on January 4, condemning the acts of pirated films being uploaded on the Internet and sales of pirated DVDs.

Special Task And Rescue

Additionally, the STAR team also plays the role of first responder on piracy, terrorism and robbery threats at sea before arrival of the reinforcement from Royal Malaysian Police and Royal Malaysian Navy Special Forces.

Steal This Film

Material found in Steal This Film includes the music of Can, tracks "Thief" and "She Brings the Rain"; clips from other documentary interviews with industry and governmental officials; several industry anti-piracy promotionals; logos from several major Hollywood studios, and sequences from The Day After Tomorrow, The Matrix, Zabriskie Point, and They Live.

Stig Andersen Hvide

Recent excavation on the island of Samsø by archaeologists of the National Museum of Denmark revealed acts of piracy attributed to Marsk Stig.

Stockholm-class corvette

In early 2009 the Swedish government decided that the two ships in the class was to join the EU-lead taskforce outside Somalia, where its would fight piracy.

The Crimson Pirate

In the Caribbean, late in the 18th century, Captain Vallo (Burt Lancaster), a pirate known as "The Crimson Pirate", and his crew capture a ship of the King's navy.

The Settlers IV

Over the course of twelve missions, the player fights against pirates, renegades, and the Dark Tribe itself.

Traditional Knowledge Digital Library

the objective of the library is to protect the ancient and traditional knowledge of the country from exploitation through bio-piracy and unethical patents, by documenting it electronically and classifying it as per international patent classification systems.

Vic Reeves' Pirates

# Woodes Rogers, a notorious pirate hunter, who helped put an end to piracy.


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