Freebooting

Origin

From freebooter ("a type of pirate").

Full definition of freebooting

Noun

1. Piracy or plundering
• 1853, James Richardson, Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Chapter , The Haghar are well known, even in Europe, for their freebooting propensities.
• 1900, Josephine Elizabeth Butler, Native Races and the War Chapter , Why do you now refuse to protect your own highway into the Interior, and at the same time conserve the work of the missionaries whom you have supported for two generations, ...
  and thus put an end to the freebooting of the Boers, and of our own people who joined them?
• 1921, Howard Pyle, Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates Chapter , In a short time freebooting assumed all of the routine of a regular business.
2. The unauthorized rehosting of online media

Adjective

1. Engaged in piracy or plunder
• 1843, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. Chapter , In one respect, as I hinted above, it is only too good, so sure of success, I mean, that you are no longer secure of any respect to your property in our freebooting America.