Pirates on the 21st century: dark history, #6

By Phillips Tahuer

The stereotypical image of a pirate is that of a middle-aged man with an eyepatch, cocked hat, and possibly a metal hook for an arm, like Captain Hook. Classic literature such as "Treasure Island" and movies with Jack Sparrow built the love for pirates and enhanced their mythical condition. But real pirates don't look like the "cartoon" version. Sea pirates were and still are the type of people you definitely never want to be around, as their only goal is to rob or pillage any ship that passes through their territory.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ediciones Afrodita
• Release date: Mar 23, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215586921

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Pirates

of the

21st century

Phillips Tahuer

Ediciones Afrodita

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Index

Chap.1 Maritime piracy

Chap.2 Hacking

Chap.3 Movie piracy

Chap.4 Brand Piracy

Chap.5 Pirate radio stations

Chapter 1

maritime piracy

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The evolution of piracy at sea

The stereotypical image of a pirate is that of a middle-aged man with an eye patch, a cocked hat, and possibly a metal hook for an arm, much like Captain Hook. Classic literature such as Treasure Island and movies with Jack Sparrow built a love for pirates and enhanced their mythical status. But real pirates don't look like the cartoon version. Sea pirates were and still are the kind of people you definitely never want to be with, as their only goal is to rob or plunder any ship that passes through their territory.

Pirates at sea have been a nuisance to sailors and merchants for centuries. Parallel to the existence of transport to maritime trade, there is also piracy, which has spread deep into the waters of Europe, Southeast Asia, East, and South Asia, the Persian Gulf, Madagascar, the Canary Islands, and South America. North and the Caribbean.

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History of the pirates of the sea

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Pirates exist in the 21st century, in a variety of forms:

• Piracy of content (music, movies, games, etc.) and software.

• Smuggling of counterfeit cigarettes and medicines.

• pirates of the sea

Leaving copyright theft and smuggling aside for the other chapters, there are real sea pirates in the 21st century. This is a result of poor living conditions in poorly controlled and problematic areas of the globe such as the Caribbean, the Indonesian islands, Somalia and Nigeria.

By the end of the first third of the 18th century, various European powers were able, if not to completely defeat, then at least to corner the pirates. The fact is that as the fleet increased, including the armed forces, the major European powers, such as Great Britain, France, and Spain, were able to send quite significant military forces to their colonial possessions without prejudice to the protection of their main territories. As a result, the official navy began to surpass the strength and capabilities of the pirates. All of this, along with tougher penalties for piracy and the closing of various loopholes, meant that fewer and fewer people were willing to get involved in the dangerous business of piracy. The risk began to outweigh the possible reward,

The fact is that as the industrial revolution approached and got underway, the basis of the economy changed. Now it became important not only to have resources and the ability to trade these resources and profit from them but there were profits from new inventions.

Maritime trade changed; it was no longer so much gold or manufactures that were shipped by ship, but steel and coal that local industries needed. The piracy business had already become somewhat complicated and unprofitable.

All this together led to the fact that the pirate population greatly decreased. And the main focus of the piracy business had moved to countries with low economic development. Cases of coastal piracy were very common in the 19th century in North Africa, where the main beneficiaries of said piracy were the native governments. What were they doing? They offered the European powers, whose trade routes passed through their territories, the payment of a toll, simply to prevent their ships from being attacked. That is, they were actually involved in organized crime. Why did the European states agree to pay such a tribute instead of putting things in order and fixing things? In fact,

It should not be thought that piracy was concentrated at that time only in North Africa. Pirates were active throughout the 19th century in Southeast Asia and throughout most of the Indian Ocean. They also stayed in the Caribbean. But piracy was now more localized to these regions, and Europeans only noticed it when it affected their ships. But their ships were rarely attacked. The reason for this was simple: the pirates knew that if they attacked ships owned by large British or Dutch companies, this would inevitably lead to serious retaliation from the authorities, something the pirates certainly tried to avoid.

Therefore, the main part of piracy in these regions was reduced to actions with each other. That is piracy at the local level. In Southeast Asia, however, a lot of piracy activity was also directed against China, but again, China is not a European power, nor was its power like it is today.

As in the period of antiquity, in Asia, piracy in the 19th century was considered a worthy, respected, and even