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Re:Facebook Rights Manager by scrollaway on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @10:13AM (#11488299)
There's a linguist inside me all giddy, having seen the birth of a word and seeing it getting adopted into the mainstream.

(For those who don't know, the word, in the context of copyright, was invented on the excellent Hello Internet podcast - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j-tCHzjam4)

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Re:Facebook Rights Manager by garrettgrimsley on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @10:21AM (#11488375)
It was adopted for this new use, but like the word "piracy" it has been around for quite awhile.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/freebooting

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Re:Facebook Rights Manager by BHSPitMonkey on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @11:44AM (#11489164)
It's a bit more specific than piracy, since piracy today is more commonly associated with an individual stealing content for personal use, or to resell the content itself.
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Re:Facebook Rights Manager by filthydumbidiot on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @01:12PM (#11490120)
Freebooting is certainly more specific than piracy, but I think you may have missed the word "like" in there. GP means that the word "freebooting" itself is not new, but its new meaning in today's context is (like "pirate") new.
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