The Protecting Intellectual Rights Against Theft and Expropriation Act of 2004, better known as the Pirate Act, was a bill in the United States Congress that would have let federal prosecutors file civil lawsuits against suspected copyright infringers.

* Groups within the entertainment industry, including the RIAA and the Motion Picture Association of America ( MPAA ) were very supportive of the Pirate Act.

* Some organizations feel that the passage of bills such as the Pirate Act would give private industry groups ( such as the RIAA ) unnecessary aid from the government.

Stacie Rumenap, deputy director of the American Conservative Union, was strongly against the bill: " The Pirate Act is another masquerade by Hollywood to make taxpayers foot the bill for its misguided war on promising new technology.

The Pirate Act was grouped into an omnibus bill-The Intellectual Property Protection Act ( 2004 )-with seven other related pieces of legislation, including the Artists ' Rights and Theft Prevention Act of 2004 ( ART Act ).

Various reincarnations of the Pirate Act were proposed and passed through the Senate in both 2005 and 2006, but both times it again failed to pass through the House.

* Text of the " Pirate Act "

On 14 August 1967 The Marine Offences Act was introduced in the UK and the Pirate Stations were shut down.

Perhaps the Pirate who will be the unhappiest over the news that Musial probably will sit out most of the series is Bob Friend, who was beaten by The Man twice last season on dramatic home runs.

The other version was presented by Richard Zacks in his 2002 book The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd.

On November 9, 2010, LimeWire was resurrected by a secret team of developers and named LimeWire Pirate Edition.

In the United States, the conflict was sometimes also referred to as the Undeclared War With France, the Pirate Wars, or the Half-War.

Those " different types " of films he had made-The Great Sinner ( 1949 ) for MGM, Time Out of Mind ( 1947 ) for Universal ( which Siodmak also produced ), The Whistle at Eaton Falls ( 1951 ) for Columbia Pictures-all proved ill suited to his noir sensibilities ( although The Crimson Pirate, despite the difficult production, was a surprising and pleasant departure ).

In 2009, following the conviction of the owners of The Pirate Bay for copyright infringement, the popular BitTorrent site was sold to a Seychelles-based company called Riversella Ltd.

Walter Scott's 1822 novel The Pirate is set in " a remote part of Shetland ", and was inspired by his 1814 visit to the islands.

Another well-known song, recorded by Nina Simone, Judy Collins and Marc Almond, is " Pirate Jenny ", which was also recorded by Steeleye Span under the alternative title " The Black Freighter ".

Thereafter, the region was known to the British as the " Pirate Coast ", as raiders based there harassed the shipping industry despite both European and Omani navies patrolling the area from the 17th century into the 19th century.

The variant Yankee Air Pirate was used during the Vietnam War in North Vietnamese propaganda to refer to the United States Air Force.

A children's book titled The Pirate Queen was also written about Ní Mháille.

The production was called Grainne O ' Malley, The Pirate Queen and was performed by the entire Knock School at the Winspear Center in downtown Edmonton, Alberta ( Canada ).

In the end Hoffman was forced to make a publishing company of his own, Pirate Editions, in order to sell the book, with Grove Press as the distributor.

* The Man Whose Mother was a Pirate ( 1972 )

O ' Brien continued to work with Merian C. Cooper at RKO on a number of projects including the epic The Last Days of Pompeii ( 1935 ) and The Dancing Pirate ( 1936 ), which was O ' Brien's first Technicolor production.

His mother is known only as Maw Pete and was mentioned in the story " Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold " by Carl Barks and Jack Hannah ( first published October, 1942 ) as a resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

The Black Pirate was the third feature to be filmed in an early two-tone Technicolor process that had been first introduced in the 1922 feature Toll of the Sea.

He was created by Ted Osborne ( plot ) and Floyd Gottfredson ( plot and art ) in the story Mickey Mouse and the Pirate Submarine, published in the Mickey Mouse daily strip from September 1935 to January 1936.

These quests take Guybrush throughout the island, where he hears of stories of the Ghost Pirate LeChuck, who apparently died in an expedition to the mysterious Monkey Island, an act that was meant to win the love of the governor Elaine Marley.

The crew was tasked with keeping the cereal safe from the Cap ’ n ’ s nemesis, Jean LaFoote, the Barefoot Pirate.

The Pirate Planet is the second serial of the 16th season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 30 September to 21 October 1978.

The original serial was to have used clips from The Pirate Planet, The Power of Kroll, The Creature from the Pit, The Androids of Tara, Destiny of the Daleks, and City of Death.

He was a candidate for the Pirate Party in the Swedish general election 2006 and was also on its board as treasurer.

The Pirate Island, introduced in newer editions, is the first scenario which changes the mechanics of new gameplay elements introduced in Seafarers.

The character is introduced in Adventures of a Honeybee ( 1953 ), but did not make its debut as lead character until 1978's Space Pirate Captain Harlock.

White Spot is known for its " Pirate Paks ", a children's meal introduced in 1968.

It also introduced Pirate Takeover to celebrate the release of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End from May 2007 throughout summer 2007.

The set introduced the Pirate, English, and Spanish factions, with ships for each faction ranging in size from one to five masts.

Ure and his partner Lawrence " Pirate " Kelly were quite profitable at their smuggling business and played hide-and-seek with the United States Customs Department for years.

Pirate communities were some of the first to instate a system of checks and balances similar to the one used by the present-day United States and many other countries.

* Pirate Party of the United States

The " City of Lost Toys " company and the " Pirate Adventure " company featured actors and crew that were members of Actor's Equity and IATSE, respectively, the unions for professional actors and stagehands in the United States.

* Vought F6U Pirate with the United States Navy

In Story mode, the player chooses one of four careers ( United Earth League military, Mars Consortium militia, Marauder Pirate Clan, mercenary ) and follows Terminuss single-player storyline, set in the year 2197.

The only authenticated treasure chest in the United States, once owned by Thomas Tew, is kept at the Pirate Soul Museum in St Augustine, Florida.

2003 ISBN 973-651-596-6-Contains reprinted work from ' The History of Pirate Radio in Britain and the End of BBC Monopoly in Radio Broadcasting in the United Kingdom ' by Eric Gilder, North Texas State University, 1982.

The Pirate Adventure toured throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland.

* Pirate radio in the United Kingdom

" KQLZ ", " Pirate Radio 100. 3 " was a United States, Los Angeles, California area FM radio station that broadcast from March 17, 1989 through April 2, 1993.