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...

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 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 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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

2023 in piracy was marked by 120 events of maritime piracy against ships, according to the annual Piracy and Armed Robbery Report of the ICC International...

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...

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...

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 kidnappings occur during piracy, when people are kidnapped by pirates or taken hostage. Article 1 of the United Nations International Convention...

pose a maritime security threat to bordering nations up to this day. While piracy has long been identified as an ubiquitous challenge, being historically...

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...

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 Indonesia is not only notorious, but according to a survey conducted by the International Maritime Bureau, it was also the country sporting 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...

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...

classified information to WikiLeaks. On October 26, 2011, the Stop Online Piracy Act, which opponents said would threaten free speech and censor the Internet...

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...

The Piracy Act 1670 (22 & 23 Cha. 2. c. 11) was an Act of the Parliament of England. The whole Act was repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the...