freebooting

1. (computing) Software piracy, or stealing or unauthorized rehosting of digital content.Examples: "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."; "Freebooting of broadcast satellite signals may exist privately, but we have no evidence of illegal signal capture being commercialized any longer."; "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."uncountable