The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was a proposed United States congressional bill to expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement to combat online copyright...

Piracy Bill during its passage through Parliament. The Piracy Act 1670 (22 & 23 Cha. 2. c. 11) The Piracy Act 1698 The Piracy Act 1717 The Piracy Act...

The Piracy Act 1837 (7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 88) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It abolished the death penalty for most offences of...

Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing...

The Piracy Act 1698 (11 Will. 3. c. 7) was an Act of the Parliament of England passed in the eleventh year of King William III. The main purpose behind...

Act of Piracy is a 1988 American/South African thriller film directed by John Cardos and starring Gary Busey, Belinda Bauer and Ray Sharkey. While enjoying...

An Act to protect the commerce of the United States and punish the crime of piracy is an 1819 United States federal statute against piracy, amended in...

The Piracy Act 1717 (4 Geo. 1. c. 11), sometimes called the Transportation Act 1717 (1718 in New Style), was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain...

The Golden Age of Piracy is a common designation for the period between the 1650s and the 1730s, when maritime piracy was a significant factor in the...

Copyright infringement (at times referred to as piracy) is the use of works protected by copyright without permission for a usage where such permission...

to pass in 2010. A similar House version of the bill, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), was introduced on October 26, 2011. In the wake of online protests...

The Piracy Act 1721 (c.24) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The long title and preamble of the Act were: An Act for the more effectual suppressing...

group Demand Progress, known for its campaign against the Stop Online Piracy Act. On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested by Massachusetts Institute of...

Law. Kern has been involved in online activism against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and in support of Gamergate. Mark Kern was born in Taipei, Taiwan...

2024 in piracy included 33 reports of maritime piracy and armed robbery against ships to the International Maritime Bureau during the first quarter of...

Piracy in the 21st century (commonly known as modern piracy) has taken place in a number of waters around the world, including the Gulf of Guinea, Strait...

The Piracy Act 1850 (13 & 14 Vict. c. 26), sometimes called the Pirates (Head Money) Repeal Act 1850, is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom...

Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act (PCIP). He also co-sponsored the Leahy–Smith America Invents Act. As...

Piracy off the coast of Somalia occurs in the Gulf of Aden, Guardafui Channel, and Somali Sea, in Somali territorial waters and other surrounding places...

Maritime Code (Lex Rhodia), of c. 700 BC, which outlines punishment for piracy. There is an image on a Greek vase, for example, from the same era that...

in piracy resulted in 115 reports of maritime piracy and armed robbery against ships to the International Maritime Bureau. 288 acts of global piracy and...

list would be immune from prosecution under the bill. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), also known as H.R. 3261, is a bill that was introduced in the...

counterfeit goods. In October 2011, a bill was introduced entitled Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). If the bill had been passed, it would have expanded the ability...

Music piracy is the copying and distributing of recordings of a piece of music for which the rights owners (composer, recording artist, or copyright-holding...

Piracy in the Strait of Malacca has long been a threat to ship owners and the mariners who ply the 900 km-long (550 miles) sea lane. In recent years, coordinated...

America introduced the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in 2011 which would have made it a criminal act to stream and share copyrighted material,...

This timeline of the history of piracy in the 1680s is a chronological list of key events involving pirates between 1680 and 1689. Bartholomew Sharp embarks...

Spanish galleon. In this version, Flint is described as having started his piracy career as the junior partner of Andrew Murray, an idealistic Jacobite turned...

The era of piracy in the Caribbean began in the 1500s and phased out in the 1830s after the navies of the nations of Western Europe and North America with...

better discern the truth. The introduction of H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), in the United States House of Representatives, was perceived by...