Pirate (disambiguation)

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Pirates are people who commit the crime of piracy. From the original meaning of robbery at sea, usage of the term has extended to aviation and intellectual property.

[edit] Criminal Acts of Piracy

• Piracy, main article about maritime piracy
• Aircraft hijacking, commonly known as air piracy
• Biopiracy
• Copyright infringement
• Paradigm piracy
• Patent infringement
• Pirate radio
• Trademark infringement
• Misappropriation of traditional knowledge
  • Yoga piracy

[edit] Print and media

See also: List of fictional pirates

Pirates of the Caribbean (theme park ride)

• Pirates of the Caribbean films, a movie trilogy based on the Pirates of the Caribbean theme park ride
• Pirate (film) (2006), directed by Priyadarshan
• Pirates (1986 film) (1986), directed by Roman Polanski
• Piracy (comic)
• Sid Meier's Pirates!, a 1987 computer game
  • Sid Meier's Pirates! (2004), its 2004 remake
• Pirates of the Burning Sea, a 2008 MMORPG
• Space pirate, common theme in science fiction
• The Pirate (1947), American musical film
• The Pirate (1978 film), a 1978 TV Movie starring Franco Nero
• The Pirate, a novel by Harold J. Robbins
• The Pirate (novel), by Sir Walter Scott
• "The Pirate (Anderson)", a science fiction short story by Poul Anderson
• Pirate is a pornographic magazine published by Private Media Group
• Pirates (2005 film), pornographic film
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie (2008), a VeggieTales movie based on the song of the same name, which was also popularly covered by the Christian rock band Relient K in 2002

[edit] Sporting teams

Most commonly "Pirates" refer to either:

• Pittsburgh Pirates, U.S. Major League Baseball team, and the first team to use "Pirates".

"Pirates" has in the last 50 years been adopted by other teams as well:

• Bristol Rovers F.C., nickname "The Pirates", UK football team
• Cornish Pirates, UK rugby team
• East Carolina University, U.S., nickname "Pirate"
• East Kilbride Pirates, UK American Football Team
• Greece national football team, nickname "The Pirate Ship" after their success at UEFA Euro 2004
• Hampton University's athletic division are the Pirates
• Orlando Pirates, South African football (soccer) team
• The de-facto original name of Pittsburgh's football and hockey teams when they were originally founded. The football team was renamed the Steelers. The NHL team was relocated to Philadelphia for one year as the Philadelphia Quakers before disbanding.
• Poole Pirates, England Motorcycle speedway team
• Portland Pirates, U.S. hockey team

[edit] Music

• The Pirates, an opera by composer Stephen Storace that premiered in 1792.
• The Pirates of Penzance, a comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan.

[edit] Other uses

• Lego Pirates
• Pirates in terms of global warming
• Pirates constructible strategy game
• The Pirate Bay, a Swedish website that indexes torrent files
• The Pirate Party, a Swedish political party
• Piratbyrån, a Swedish organisation that promotes copyright infringement
• Pirate (R-Class Sloop), a racing boat, listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places