Taking online media and re-hosting it on your website. Engaged in piracy or plunder. Mean-spirited swashbuckling of the internet age.
Re-uploading someone else's Youtube video to your Youtube channel.
Newspapers freebooting by uploading CGP Grey's or Brady Haran's Youtube videos into their video players to make money from ads.
"Oh those freebooters taking our videos! I'm sick of it. Freebooting, you know, it's a serious issue!" -Brady Haran
Newspapers freebooting by uploading CGP Grey's or Brady Haran's Youtube videos into their video players to make money from ads.
"Oh those freebooters taking our videos! I'm sick of it. Freebooting, you know, it's a serious issue!" -Brady Haran
by Icanshowyoutheworld March 8, 2014
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The act of posting other people's original content online to for personal gain, without permission of the content creator.
"Oh those freebooters taking our videos, I'm sick of it! This freebooting is a serious issue, we need to do something about it!"
- Brady Haran, Hello Internet #5: Freebooting
"Somebody freebooted a clip of our podcast and put it on YouTube"
- C, G. P. Grey, Hello Internet #5: Freebooting
- Brady Haran, Hello Internet #5: Freebooting
"Somebody freebooted a clip of our podcast and put it on YouTube"
- C, G. P. Grey, Hello Internet #5: Freebooting
by GooseHonk March 18, 2014
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Get the freebooter mug.Czech and Slovak word used for describing 'freecoolins' - usually younger people that believe in freedom but ultimately submit to the very latest fashions and must posses all the latest clothes, gadgets, cars, etc...
Some freecoolins may actually believe that the word itself is a compliment - that it's "cool" to be a freecoolin...
This urban slang comes from a combination of the words: free-cool-in.
Some freecoolins may actually believe that the word itself is a compliment - that it's "cool" to be a freecoolin...
This urban slang comes from a combination of the words: free-cool-in.
Slacker #1 - Yo what's with the new jacket bro!?
Slacker #2 - Ehh... I bought it in London last week.
Slacker #1 - Hahaha, you're such a freecoolin! xD
Slacker #2 - LOL :D
Slacker #2 - Ehh... I bought it in London last week.
Slacker #1 - Hahaha, you're such a freecoolin! xD
Slacker #2 - LOL :D
by shlooky September 26, 2009
Get the freecoolin mug.Reposting someone else's content for your personal gain, without the creator's permission. Stealing views that would have otherwise gone to the creator.
Someone reposted my video to their YouTube channel, and now their copy went viral. I can't believe they're freebooting me like this!
by viewjacker February 7, 2018
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Dude 2: Indeed, the morales of that freebootress were quite loose.
Dude 1: Thats what she said.
Dude 2: Please don't diminish the impending threat of freebootery.
Dude 2: Indeed, the morales of that freebootress were quite loose.
Dude 1: Thats what she said.
Dude 2: Please don't diminish the impending threat of freebootery.
by freebooterist May 9, 2009
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