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  • verb Present participle of infringe.

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Examples

  • When someone threaten us with copyright BS we always replicate with a treat to spread what they call the infringing content among hundred of web sites.

    RealNetworks defies MPAA 2009

  • Once a site is identified as infringing on copyright, the government would erase any and all links to the site, as well as instruct Internet providers like Comcast and Verizon to cease all access to the site.

    Gary Shapiro: Listen to the Job Creators: Oppose PIPA and SOPA Gary Shapiro 2011

  • When someone threaten us with copyright BS we always replicate with a treat to spread what they call the infringing content among hundred of web sites.

    RealNetworks defies MPAA 2009

  • Once a site is identified as infringing on copyright, the government would erase any and all links to the site, as well as instruct Internet providers like Comcast and Verizon to cease all access to the site.

    Gary Shapiro: Listen to the Job Creators: Oppose PIPA and SOPA Gary Shapiro 2011

  • The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has written to two broadband ISPs, asking them to terminate the DSL connections of customers whom the BPI claims are engaged in infringing file-sharing.

    Boing Boing: July 9, 2006 - July 15, 2006 Archives 2006

  • The closed academic-based network led many students to believe falsely that they could engage in infringing conduct with impunity.

    Phony RIAA ’school’ report 2005

  • News. com ran an extremely FUDdy story about open wireless, quoting an AT&T spokesperson who warns that individuals who run open wireless access points will be liable for crimes committed by wardrivers and passers-by who use their access-points to commit crimes or engage in infringing file-sharing.

    Boing Boing: July 28, 2002 - August 3, 2002 Archives 2002

  • Once a site is identified as infringing on copyright, the government would erase any and all links to the site, as well as instruct Internet providers like Comcast and Verizon to cease all access to the site.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Gary Shapiro 2011

  • [I need to add here that the conservatives used to claim that they wanted to protect people from government, but I agree that has "gone out the window" with the passage of the Patriot Act, and Military Commissions Act -- both of which have given government great leeway in infringing on our rights.

    Talk radio David 2007

  • You either have -- you get to force someone to stop infringing, which is stop selling, or you force someone to get a license.

    CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2008 2008

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