Piracy

The Culture of Piracy: Jake Brisk When attempting to determine the causes and effects of piracy, we need to first examine who engages in online piracy, and why they choose to do so. Steal This Film paints an image of a new generation of pirates. Through the interviews, they make it seem as if piracy is an issue created by a brave new generation that does not believe in intellectual property protection. Moreover, some of the interviewees argue that we pirate simply because it is in our nature to do so. They argue that online piracy is simply a result of a new generation getting back in touch with who we are as humans. These interviews show us that youths do not pirate music because they cannot afford to buy it; instead, they pirate music simply…

Throughout the last decade some pieces of legislation have been enacted and have decreased the piracy rates in several countries. The government seems to be able to This may seem this way at first, but history has shown that this is not the proper way to stop piracy. To disprove this idea, I will explore a relatively successful piece of anti-piracy legislation. It was the Swedish Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive, or IPRED. The purpose of IPRED to allow copyright holders to…

Piracy is absolutely a question of definition. Those in power were able to determine what was and what wasn’t piracy, giving them power to do exactly what these “pirates” were doing with no repercussions. Since there is no agreed on universal definition for piracy, there are constantly differing interpretations about what constitutes a pirate. In “Towards General Theory of Piracy”, Shannon Lee Dawdy and Joe Bonni note all the perceptions of piracy and pirates, varying from “splendid villains,”…

Joel Baer’s British Piracy in the Golden Age (2008) has made reviewing such cases monumentally easier, for which I am deeply indebted. My research strives to go beyond a superficial analysis of the most widely circulated and notorious cases and examine the entire era of colonial piracy trials. The hope is that by carefully analyzing piracy legislation, and the way in which officials interpreted those policies in their courtrooms, we are able to better understand the perceived threat of piracy…

Since officials exhibited such latitude in determining what constituting an act of piracy, Letters of Marque became crucially important during the seventeenth century to shield sailors from potential charges. English courts clearly identified the legal demarcation between privateers and pirates as early as the fourteenth century. The sovereign issued commissions to privateer captains authorizing them to attack the vessels of specified enemy nations. Since piracy included an element of robbery,…

300 years ago 1000 of pirates sailed around the world it was called the Golden Age of piracy the Caribbean sea was very popular with pirates because there were tons of islands that English born Henry Avery or Avery was one of the most notorious pirates of the 16 hundreds he was one of the few pirates captain retired with the ships and all his treasure and solute with without being captured or killed in battle ivory or every wasn't always a pirate though he actually started his career on the sea…

Since the dawn of time, the controversial debate on whether copyright piracy has a negative or positive effect on the entertainment industry, has been going on. Copyright piracy is "the action of duplicating, taking, or the usage of copyright material without permission" as defined by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) (ehow). Copyright piracy in the Entertainment industry ranges anywhere from illegal downloading an MP3 off a torrent website, to illegally streaming a TV show not available on…

varying form and content. Although the 1700 Piracy Act required registers to keep minutes of the proceedings, like much of everything surrounding piracy law, there were no specifics on what that meant. It is clear from the collection of these trials that the point of the recorder was not to capture every word uttered in court. Depending on the court the narrative changes between first and third person, and the level of included material varies considerably. Some records, such as John Quelch and…

The intent of this paper is to acknowledge the presence of piracy and its evolution, identify the differences in regulations regarding civilian and military policy in the prevention and response to piratical acts, and address strategies to improve the effectiveness of implementing international policy against piracy. It is important to understand the historical development of piracy throughout international relations in order to identify what factors contribute to the occurrence of piracy and…

Kavon Bastian HIS 112-02: Term Paper Connections: Piracy, Slavery, and The Bahamas Piracy, the swashbuckling shipmates of old. There are many accounts of piracy; some from merchant sources, others from the nations themselves. But one thing stands tall: Piracy had an effect on The Bahamas (and the wider Caribbean as well). In this paper, I attempt to explore the connections between piracy and The Bahamas - whether they be economical, social or political. The Beginnings of Atlantic Piracy:…