Piracy

breed of pirate is taking his place, plundering ships in most oceans of the world” (9). The global phenomenon of contemporary piracy exemplifies modern trends which contribute to its reawakening. In modern day piracy, pirates are criminals who are driven by economic necessity. According to Martin Murphy, piracy can be referred to as a gang crime because the act of piracy occurs in small groups rather than individually (23). With more organized pirates, it is possible to make off with larger…

pirates and reasons from the Clipper Group, along with other specialists. Throughout the documentary, Ali was the representative for the pirates and stated his reasons for joining piracy and how the pirates came to be. As stated earlier, Somalia has been a warped country, having traditions of war and resorting to piracy. Because of this, Ali joined the pirates in order to earn money and provide his son with a future. However, the Clipper Group believed all pirates to be corrupt and their actions…

Piracy is a long-standing issue in the recording industry and has become one of the many reasons for a decline in the economics of the music business. There is no doubt that it is wrong to pirate music, it is after all illegal. However, there is little research about the ethical decision behind pirating. Is there a connection behind ethical beliefs and the belief that pirating is wrong? The correlation between piracy, ethics, and the future of the music business will provide some insight into…

theories have been made as to what pirating was really like. Many false accusations have been made and still get tossed around to this day. The romanticized version of piracy, the novel Treasure Island they life of piracy is much different from what it actually was like according to the factual information packet about pirates/pirating/piracy. First off, pirates were well known for looting ships and making people walk the plank. In the novel Treasure Island, it talks about a ship headed to…

Galleons, and Treasure: Globe Trekker’, a documentary film in which the real pirates that lived are discussed. This film is a good, accurate, representation of why piracy happened along with who the pirates were and what they did. There is a range of different pirates that were mentioned, so they and what they did, along with the reason for piracy and how effectively this documentary relayed this information to the viewer will be discussed in this paper. The pirates talked about in ‘Pirates,…

successful at bringing pirates into shore, they did not keep them for long. Many shook the hand of the governor, swore his allegiance to the crown, and then shortly returned to preying on vessels at sea. The failure of pardons to slow the proliferation of piracy cannot all be blamed on piratical greed. Pardons were specific to regions and times, and the vague language they contained raised fear of trickery. Justices at the oyer and terminar court at Old Bailey in London executed two of William…

spoke about Port Royale and Nassau and how they were frequented by pirates and filled with debauchery and rum (Pirates, Galleons and Treasure, 2007). They fail to mention however Tortuga which is surprising seeing as it is known for its connection to piracy, as seen on popular films like “Pirates of the Caribbean” (Verbinski, 2003). It was just as popular as Port Royale and Nassau and was shown to be a great trading place for merchants and pirates (Konstam, 2011, p.102) but it is never spoken…

involved in digital piracy and traditional deviance while in college. The results revealed on the digital piracy that both gender and age have significantly predict involvement in digital piracy prior to the introduction of the social learning constructs. However, on the tradition deviance the outcome shown that the social learning significantly mediate the relationship between age and digital piracy. The result is that gender is not a significant predictor of digital piracy through SLT.…

Introduction Newport, Rhode Island was a safe haven for pirates during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, especially from the late 1600s to the early 1700s. This perhaps is surprising considering that Rhode Island was established by Puritans, but it is important to note that these Puritans were not as devout as the first generation that had settled the colonies. In fact, Rhode Island was a place where the non-traditional colonists’ could belong. Still, pirates were a part of the daily…

Although stealing physical goods from individuals and organisations is less prominent today, a new form of theft known as digital piracy has been a global issue that has plagued the creative industries, as well as many other industries ever since the creation of peer-to-peer file sharing systems such as NAPSTER. Many attempts have been made in an effort to curb digital piracy such as the raid on the outfit which hosted ‘The Pirate Bay’ in Sweden during 2006 which resulted in the confiscation of…