If you're new to the fast-growing world of video piracy, here's something you should take a gander at. |
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Piracy, especially optical disc piracy, is big business in the Asia-Pacific. |
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We will take the fight to all those involved in piracy and contraband trafficking. |
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Their courtship had begun in the early days of his time at Parchman, just weeks after his ill-fated dabble in air piracy. |
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On May 17, a West German court convicted Mohammad Ali Hamadei of murder and air piracy and sentenced him to life imprisonment. |
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While piracy and terrorism may not be the same crime, they share enough elements to merit joint definition under international law. |
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Mumbai police arrested a person in relation with illegal piracy at the domestic airport in the wee hours of Saturday morning. |
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Another important consideration is to separate movie piracy from music piracy. |
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Both Hack and Blair say they are skeptical of amnesty programs and don't use them to fight piracy and cable theft efforts. |
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Consider recent actions on bills addressing such disparate issues as homeland security, movie piracy and auto burglary. |
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The trouble for Russian rights owners is keeping track of Internet piracy when physical piracy is so much of a problem. |
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Digital cable is often considered the answer to cable signal theft and piracy, but as a final solution it's a long way off. |
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Therefore, even if music piracy really is stealing, copyright owners don't have a right to take reasonable steps to prevent it. |
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Like the music and film industries, the adult-entertainment industry has grappled with digital piracy. |
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These exchanges were seen as a healthy part of the distribution of information, not a form of piracy or plagiarism. |
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It survived on contraband and piracy, trading cattle, hides, sugar, tobacco, and foodstuffs directly with other nations. |
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The idea is to prevent large-scale piracy operations from thieves who counterfeit Symantec programs and offer them to customers on the Web. |
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Digital audio tape, a format for clear-sounding cassette players, foundered after record companies, fearing piracy refused to endorse it. |
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There, around a campfire, his boyhood games of piracy and Robin Hood met the tall tale and the demotic idiom. |
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For the current dominant content producers, the real threat from the Internet is probably less from piracy, and more from disintermediation. |
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But a long period of piracy intervened between the early practices of silent barter and the later trade by modern exchange methods. |
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The idea that movie piracy can be reduced by simultaneous theater and DVD releases has been batted around for a little while now. |
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Property insurance developed in response to the hazards faced by medieval exporters, for example losses from shipwreck, piracy, or theft. |
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Film producers tend to blame cable TV and video piracy for their misfortunes. |
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Web site tip-offs to the Business Software Alliance have led to heavy software piracy fines for two UK companies. |
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To send armed forces onboard a civil ship sending out Mayday signals is piracy. |
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In the last part of your article you liken the act of music piracy to the theft of physical property. |
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Monday's story in the Wall Street Journal about Academy DVD screeners and their vulnerability to piracy was slightly silly. |
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Does they have reliable data on just what contribution to the current piracy problem Academy screeners represent? |
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For years, the music and film industries have fought a Sisyphean battle against piracy. |
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The people in the Sulu islands have a long and enthusiastic history of tribal wars, raiding, slaving and piracy. |
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It held such crimes to be offences against the law of nations, much as was the traditional crime of piracy. |
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However, thanks to smuggling, piracy, and trade with the New World, England was able to thwart Napoleon's plan. |
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Producing translated versions of foreign-language books is the third type of piracy. |
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Larger music companies say they'll reduce prices on the coolest CDs in an effort to boost sales and reduce piracy. |
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Sanders attributes the Argentine ants ' success primarily to its superior foraging and piracy of other ants' food finds. |
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At that time piracy was carried on by some of the highest people in the land. |
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The RIAA, on behalf of its members, fights to stop the piracy of digital music files using what some would call strong-arm tactics. |
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The new security regulations are being introduced to reduce the risk of terrorism and other criminal acts, including hijackings and piracy. |
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Concerned good citizens who think they may have discovered some nefarious doings should email the anti piracy team here. |
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However, the captains of the detained ships have been reported as describing the US action as piracy. |
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You can end software piracy pretty quickly by making the software dependent on a service subscription. |
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Last week's piece on software piracy drew more than a few comments, as you would expect. |
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He said the state of security on the Internet was about the same as on the roads of Elizabethan England with piracy and highway robbery endemic. |
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In 1976, movie studios sued Sony over its Betamax videotape recorder, claiming it facilitated piracy. |
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Counterfeiting and piracy cheats consumers, retailers, manufacturers and the Exchequer, and often funds criminal activity. |
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Online crimes can include multimillion-dollar swindles, online auction scams, and piracy of software and other copyrighted material. |
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It is one of the biggest cases of Internet piracy and illegal copying ever discovered. |
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Copy protection, especially to prevent overseas piracy for illicit sale, is an important issue. |
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Considering the pervasiveness of piracy, it's taking a pretty fair stance here. |
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Given the scope of the problem, we are taking measured steps to combat online piracy. |
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Nevertheless, this is an informative, readable book which puts piracy in true perspective. |
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The court is siding with the entertainment industry in its effort to curb online piracy. |
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Television piracy is more rare, which reflects the increased complexity of television over radio. |
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A U.S. Navy official who tracks piracy issues says as long as shipping companies are willing to pay ransoms, than piracy will continue. |
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Despite such side effects, some record execs have decided that the copy protection scheme is a dandy way to prevent music piracy. |
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It is these inequalities that bedevil the operations of the troubled music companies, as much as piracy. |
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It's refreshing to hear an artist sing the pros as opposed to crying the cons of piracy on the Net. |
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Beyrle's stance is concurrent with EU recommendations for stronger measures against piracy. |
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I'm not an outright condoner of piracy, but I think the issue of intellectual property rights should be viewed from a balanced perspective. |
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Why address the symptom, piracy, of the main problem, insane taxes on games, instead of the main problem? |
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She couldn't possibly wear it often, and much less know about ships and piracy. |
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The code was introduced by the International Maritime Organisation to deter terrorism, piracy and other criminal acts. |
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The IMB reported that between January and March this year, the Malacca Straits have seen seven piracy attacks. |
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While the waterway has seen no major terrorist attacks, piracy is widespread. |
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Our goal is to destroy and delegitimize terrorism the way slavery and piracy were delegitimized in the nineteenth century. |
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To fight both piracy and terrorism, the IMB proposes pooling resources among the countries sharing sea-lane boundaries. |
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Subjects now range far beyond the Great Lakes, from piracy on the high seas to the environmental health of our oceans. |
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Koizumi told reporters that many incidents of piracy have occurred despite shipping companies' own efforts to protect themselves. |
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Naval warfare experts say the U.S. Navy simply isn't large enough to do much about the problem, whether it's piracy or terrorism. |
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And it could under certain circumstances lead to unilateral action to suppress piracy and terrorism in the Malacca Strait. |
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Providing a worrying statistic he said that 60 per cent of the world's acts of piracy happened in South East Asian waters. |
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There the Africans stood trial for piracy and murder in a much publicized case, even for that day. |
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Recent examples of Somalian piracy includes raids on ships carrying supplies for the UN World Food Programme. |
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Now, as I write, Australia threatens to forcibly remove the ship from our waters and the ship's owner accuses us of piracy. |
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Nevertheless, Mr. Critton's act of air piracy is very much the context of the crimes for which he is to be sentenced. |
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They said they could not send all the substantiation they held about the link between piracy and terrorism because it was confidential. |
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What happens if someone tries to board the island, in the name of art piracy or stunt publicity? |
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Each was convicted on December 11 of air piracy and faces 20 years to life in prison. |
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The authors' area of expertise is clearly in energy security, but while floundering in piracy and terrorism they have lost their way. |
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If anything, it will push up piracy and television viewership. |
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A taste for violence has been a feature of attacks since piracy began. |
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Tensions have been increasing between a number of countries and China recently over its trade surplus, surging textile imports and problems with product piracy. |
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He worked unstable jobs as a fisherman and a construction worker before he entered the piracy business. |
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There are other, less obtrusive ways to reduce software piracy. |
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Sentenced to hang for piracy, William Fly spoke from the gallows to a large crowd, telling captains to pay sailors their wages or take as a warning his murder of a captain. |
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National leadership and more pervasive international co-operation will also be essential in order to keep mafia and piracy practices from resurging. |
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Internet music piracy had already taken a slug out of the budget market, and legally downloadable music from the internet posed a long-term threat. |
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They will be used in roles ranging from supporting Customs and the Australian Federal Police to fisheries protection, immigration and anti piracy. |
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The re-export trade, catering to consumer demand for such items as electronics, audio tapes and compact discs, designer clothing and footwear had encouraged widespread piracy. |
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So my parents capitulated around 1988 and got one of those jail broken dishes with a descrambler that would only last for a few years before the industry figured out a way around such blatant piracy. |
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Delay, impractical documentary formalities, lax enforcement, continuing widespread visibility of piracy and the export of pirated goods remain concerns. |
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Studios such as Disney and Paramount are apoplectic about the billions of dollars in revenue being lost to rampant online piracy. |
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Ten years after the launch of Napster, the first online file-sharing service, the music industry is no closer to solving the problems created by digital piracy. |
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Echolocation divulges a great deal of information about the echolocator itself, and so permits intraspecific and interspecific piracy of information, a consequence that could be inconvenient or fatal. |
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This also an area known for piracy, which means that military radar surveillance would have been highly active. |
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I can't see us eliminating piracy until we get to the stage where you need identify yourself with a thumbprint to be able to activate the console. |
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Copyright owners are going uncompensated, mainstream companies can't jump in and innovate for fear of facilitating piracy, and consumers end up confused. |
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As is the wont with all our film heroes who wax eloquent on the plague of video piracy only when their films are slated for a release, Chiranjeevi too was no exception. |
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As with any new device, fears came up about privacy, security, the fear of looking like a dork, and piracy. |
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It simply compromises on quality as piracy is all about quantity and reaping as much profits as possibly can from the tireless efforts of artists. |
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Changes that define whether piracy is for profit or not have set a threshold that will allow not-for-profit offenders to get off scot-free, Lee said. |
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No deaths were reported from piracy attacks in the first three months of the year, although pirates were said to be armed with guns, knives and other weapons. |
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There are many fine houses here as well as vast warehouses, all of which are walled and well guarded, for piracy and theft are as common as regular trade here. |
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We've paid all this money to recompense the music industry for piracy. |
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Any State was authorized to arrest and bring to justice persons suspected of engaging in piracy, whatever their nationality and the place of commission of the crime. |
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Frankly I don't give a whoop about Sony losing a dime from piracy and think they have ruined what is a great hardware product with absolutely terrible software. |
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Then came the exposure of the population to the threat of piracy, a scourge which the Spanish tried to counteract throughout their viceroyalties with fortifications. |
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Notable features of Windows XP are that it is faster that previous operating systems reduces the possibility of piracy and theft of both hardware and software. |
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The bipolar climate asynchrony in our scenarios is caused by the toggle between North Atlantic heat piracy and South Atlantic counter heat piracy. |
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Or on the other hand, from the governments' perspective should piracy be viewed as a handy but deniable mechanism for pressuring the software company's pricing downwards? |
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Possibly the bank, in the light of a piracy software charge against the buyers, did not want to get involved in the case Microsoft brought against the buyers. |
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It is obvious that this figure only scratches the surface of movie piracy when a five year old can download the latest Teletubbies movie over the Internet. |
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A Florida court convicted a Cuban hijacker of air piracy in the March diversion of a passenger plane to Key West. |
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The age of steam also helped to end piracy as anti-slavery operations were now undertaken by steam ships. |
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In these jurisdictions, conduct tantamount to piracy could be prosecuted as cognately related ordinary crimes. |
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They also called on each sister ministry to forge regulations criminalizing cybernetic piracy. |
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The warship is one of the Malaysian units located in the international waters of Gulf of Aden to combat piracy. |
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Patrols by European Union warships since December 2008 to deter hijackings have done little to dent the enthusiasm for piracy among Somalis. |
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The parties during the visit have exchanged views and information relevant to customs fraudulences, counterfeits and piracy. |
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The Spanish guarded their trade routes jealously, and Mary could not condone illicit trade or piracy against her husband. |
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Prior to the middle of the 3rd century BC, officials known as duumviri navales commanded a fleet of twenty ships used mainly to control piracy. |
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Cornish piracy was active during the Elizabethan era on the west coast of Britain. |
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Hornigold placed him in command of a sloop he had captured, and the two engaged in numerous acts of piracy. |
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Whether Teach had any involvement in this decision is unknown, but Hornigold quickly retired from piracy. |
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Another 12 years had passed when an act of piracy caused him to take up Esther once again. |
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The early Picts are associated with piracy and raiding along the coasts of Roman Britain. |
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It may be reasonable to assume that piracy has existed for as long as the oceans were plied for commerce. |
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The Victual Brothers of Gotland were a companionship of privateers who later turned to piracy as the Likedeelers. |
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The Maniots considered piracy as a legitimate response to the fact that their land was poor and it became their main source of income. |
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In 1783 and 1784 the Spaniards also bombarded Algiers in an effort to stem the piracy. |
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They would be used as coast guards, or sent on recon missions to deal with Arab piracy in the Arabian Sea. |
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A new phase of piracy began in the 1690s as English pirates began to look beyond the Caribbean for treasure. |
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This arrangement also contributed heavily to the spread of piracy across the western Atlantic at this time. |
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This revived Caribbean trade provided rich new pickings for a wave of piracy. |
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Also crucial to the end of this era of piracy was the loss of the pirates' last Caribbean safe haven at Nassau. |
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In the early 19th century, piracy along the East and Gulf Coasts of North America as well as in the Caribbean increased again. |
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By the 1830s piracy had died out again, and the navies of the region focused on the slave trade. |
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While piracy was predominantly a male occupation throughout history, a minority of pirates were female. |
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By September 2012, the heyday of piracy in the Indian Ocean was reportedly over. |
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First and foremost, the best protection against piracy is simply to avoid encountering them. |
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Section 2 of the Piracy Act 1837 creates a statutory offence of aggravated piracy. |
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William Hawkins said that at common law, piracy by a subject was esteemed to be petty treason. |
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In either case, piracy cases were cognizable in the courts of the Lord High Admiral. |
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The agreement was that each party would be responsible for combating piracy in their respective half. |
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The crime of piracy is considered a breach of jus cogens, a conventional peremptory international norm that states must uphold. |
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A limitation of article 101 above is that it confines piracy to the High Seas. |
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Patrick Crowhurst researched French piracy and David Starkey focused British 18th century piracy. |
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William Kidd, for instance, began as a legitimate British privateer but was later hanged for piracy. |
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As punishment for piracy, an East India Company vessel bombarded Doha in 1821, destroying the town and forcing hundreds of residents to flee. |
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Lord Beckett gains power over Davy Jones and, with the help of the Flying Dutchman, he is now executing his plans to extinguish piracy forever. |
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Smuggling, bribery, piracy, and intimidation of customs officials became commonplace. |
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Headquartering themselves at Kisimul Castle, and making use of Birlinns, the MacNeils became famed for piracy. |
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Around 210, piracy increased around the North Sea and boosted the supply of slaves. |
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The nocturnal nesting behaviour of some seabirds has been interpreted as arising due to pressure from this aerial piracy. |
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To remedy this, these landless men took to piracy to obtain material wealth. |
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Seafarers engaged in illegal business long valued this maze of islands as a den of piracy and smuggling. |
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The concept of the code is to provide layered and redundant defences against smuggling, terrorism, piracy, stowaways, etc. |
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The Caribbean is the setting for countless literary efforts often related to piracy acts and swashbuckling. |
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It is tasked with the broader enforcement of maritime laws, especially against smuggling, illegal fishing, drug trafficking, and piracy. |
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As consistent trade increased between Spain and Portugal and the East and West Indies, respectively, so did piracy. |
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They were just men that saw piracy as a lucrative opportunity in which they had little to lose. |
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Aside from the criminal world of piracy, there was also the emerging colonies in North America. |
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State sponsored, or military impressment was entirely different in the Atlantic World when compared to impressment in the world of piracy. |
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The wooden world of piracy was very much structured when it came to shipboard relations. |
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Pirates were mostly former merchant seamen, or at least men who had sailed on vessels legitimately before turning to piracy. |
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An increased effort to combat piracy with naval forces, effectively stamped out piracy. |
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Blackbeard's death became the stuff of legend and was used by the royal navy in its propaganda campaign in eliminating piracy. |
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In the Atlantic world of the 17th and 18th centuries piracy was defined as any criminal act committed on the high seas. |
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This means that many of those accused of piracy were criminals but not necessarily a crew of sailors capturing ships. |
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There was a playwright by that name in the early eighteenth century, but there are no ties to piracy found in his works. |
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Firsthand information about piracy is relatively rare, and scholars often pull from the same texts when compiling their data. |
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The evolution of the history of piracy mirrors that of many other subjects. |
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As historians began to stray from the strict retelling of these stories, piracy became more significant. |
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Recent academic books on piracy in the Atlantic World focus on the pirates and their relationships with the wider world. |
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Turning to piracy was not that out of line for the young valiant in those years. |
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Consequently, much piracy, illegal dumping of waste and fishing without permit has occurred. |
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With Ottoman protection and a host of destitute immigrants, the coastline soon became reputed for piracy. |
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After the 2nd century BC, the Roman fleet ruled the Mediterranean and actively suppressed piracy. |
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If there were any Frisii left in Frisia, they fell victim to the whims of nature, civil strife and piracy. |
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As a result of the Vandal sack of Rome and piracy in the Mediterranean, it became important to the Roman Empire to destroy the Vandal kingdom. |
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Some video game consoles use specially designed cartridges to make software piracy more difficult. |
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I must in candor admit that the Plutarch of piracy is sometimes more edifying than entertaining. |
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Even if not formally authorized, captains sometimes supplemented their earnings by undertaking a bit of piracy and extortion on the side. |
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Until the beginning of the 13th century, hostilities were limited to rare acts of piracy and isolated skirmishes. |
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In 1218 Venice and Genoa reached an agreement to end the piracy and to safeguard each other. |
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However, the ban on maritime shipping did force countless numbers of people into smuggling and piracy. |
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The Portuguese were permitted to settle at Macao in 1557, but only after several years of helping the Chinese suppress piracy. |
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Ghana retains and exercises the death penalty for treason, corruption, robbery, piracy, drug trafficking, rape, and homicide. |
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The Bahamas became a British crown colony in 1718, when the British clamped down on piracy. |
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However this came to a stop with the appointment of Zhu Wan in 1547 as special grand coordinator to stamp out piracy in Zhejiang and Fujian. |
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However, in the meantime, the English had taken possession of the nearby Isla del Carmen and other points in the Gulf for piracy. |
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Other sources suggest that Verrazzano was executed for piracy by the Spanish, at Puerto del Pico, Spain. |
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It was typical of Cossacks to engage in piracy on the Sea of Azov or the Caspian Sea and to rob various envoys and Russian or Persian merchants. |
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There is also some major piracy in Nigeria, with attacks directed at all types of vessels. |
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The Spanish granted the British settlers the right to occupy the area and cut logwood in exchange for helping to suppress piracy. |
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Research from 2014 found links between entrepreneurship and historical sea piracy. |
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The record business is 98 percent piracy everywhere on the planet. |
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Syria denounced the move as air piracy and Russia said the shipment of radar parts complied with international law. |
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A Cuban accused of using fake hand grenades to hijack a Cuban government passenger plane pleaded not guilty to air piracy charges in a US court. |
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The topic was the arming of airline pilots as a defense against air piracy and terrorism. |
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Tanaka also told the court that he has no intention to contest the basic facts surrounding the 1970 hijacking, the first air piracy in Japan. |
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Digimarc Corporation has acquired privately-held Attributor Corporation, the global leader in protecting eBooks from online piracy. |
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We're working very closely with the studios on several issues,' adding that content protection against piracy was the thorniest problem. |
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Being an accessory to piracy was also criminalised under the statute. |
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In 1828, Great Britain blockaded the port in retaliation for piracy. |
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Shipping traffic between Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe began to soar in the 18th century, a model that was known as triangular trade, and was a rich target for piracy. |
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They provided safety, both for the Portuguese, and at times for the territories in which they were built, protecting against constant rivalries and piracy. |
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However, a combination of famine, Qing naval opposition, and internal rifts crippled piracy in China around the 1820s, and it has never again reached the same status. |
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After a difficult struggle, he succeeded in suppressing piracy. |
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These were sheikhdoms forced to accept truces in the early nineteenth century with the British navy, which was determined to end their proclivity for piracy. |
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In 1802, the menacing Zheng Yi inherited the fleet of his cousin, captain Zheng Qi, whose death provided Zheng Yi with considerably more influence in the world of piracy. |
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Further, English ships began a policy of piracy against Spanish trade and threatened to plunder the great Spanish treasure ships coming from the new world. |
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In Madura, they were received peacefully, but De Houtman ordered his men to brutally attack and rape the civilian population in revenge for the unrelated earlier piracy. |
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The voyage was interrupted by English piracy which forced a shipwreck. |
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The Bugis sailors of South Sulawesi were infamous as pirates who used to range as far west as Singapore and as far north as the Philippines in search of targets for piracy. |
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During the 16th and 17th centuries, there was frequent European piracy against Mughal Indian merchants, especially those en route to Mecca for Hajj. |
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Law on Slave Trade made slave trading piracy, punishable by death. |
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In the vicinity of modern Kenya, the expedition resorted to piracy, looting Arab merchant ships that were generally unarmed trading vessels without heavy cannons. |
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Pirates are often equated in the modern mind with privateers and buccaneers, but neither label accurately describes piracy during the early eighteenth century. |
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Faced with the growing threat of piracy, in 1564 the Spanish adopted a convoy system far ahead of its time, with treasure fleets leaving America in April and August. |
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What Spain and Portugal would call piracy was often sponsored by, even if only at times marginally, monarchs such as Elizabeth I and Edward VI of England. |
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By the turn of the seventeenth century this vast expansion of the Dutch had formed colonies in the East Indies and soon they started feeling as well the wrath of piracy. |
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An important factor of turning to piracy is one's social class. |
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The decisive moment in the rise of Microsoft may well have been the piracy of Bill Gates's first programming code by San Francisco-area hobbyists. |
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Narrow channels which funnel shipping into predictable routes have long created opportunities for piracy, as well as for privateering and commerce raiding. |
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In many ways, the freedom of colonialism and piracy are very parallel. |
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After Woodes Rogers' 1718 landing at New Providence and his ending of the pirate republic, however, piracy in the West Indies fell into terminal decline. |
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The remainder of Teach's crew and former associates were found by Brand, in Bath, and were transported to Williamsburg, Virginia, where they were jailed on charges of piracy. |
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In 1783 and 1784 the Spanish bombarded Algiers to end piracy. |
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She argues that this imagery of piracy appealed to elite men, who enjoyed the thought of an alternate masculinity without the restraint required of men in the upper classes. |
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Ironically, he was acquitted of piracy, but convicted of murder. |
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The latter days of Henry VI's government had been marked by a general breakdown in law and order, as well as a sizeable increase in both piracy and banditry. |
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Engaging in trade, piracy and mercenary activities, they roamed the river systems and portages of Gardariki, reaching the Caspian Sea and Constantinople. |
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In September Teach and Hornigold encountered Stede Bonnet, a landowner and military officer from a wealthy family who had turned to piracy earlier that year. |
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The 82 passengers and five crew aboard the twin-jet Boeing 737 were at the whim of terrorists whose fanaticism had rarely been matched in the grisly history of air piracy. |
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David was an information officer for the Federal Aviation Administration and while there he was asked to be part of a special task force to prevent air piracy. |
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Kidnapping on the high seas in connection with piracy has been increasing. |
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Opposition to the Whydah complex was spearheaded by Tampa Lawyer Warren Dawson, who voiced concerns that slavery was trivialized through an association with piracy. |
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On the subject of piracy, writings in the nineteenth century mostly consisted of the reprinting of source materials with little, if any commentary or interpretation. |
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Probably shortly after the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht, he moved there from Jamaica, and with most privateers once involved in the war, became involved in piracy. |
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The economy was in ruins by 1450, a consequence of the loss of France, piracy in the channel and poor trading relations with the Hanseatic League. |
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Esther Velthoen examines Dutch attempts to tame coastal raiding up until 1905, efforts that have some remarkable similarities to Roman attempts to curb Cilician piracy. |
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This left little revenue for Puntland's own security forces and civil service employees, leaving the territory vulnerable to piracy and terrorist attacks. |
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In his book, he explains what causes a desperate man to turn to piracy. |
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Bruckheimer brought Stuart Beattie in to rewrite the script in March 2002, due to his knowledge of piracy, and later that month Elliott and Rossio were brought in. |
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The Ottoman eastern Mediterranean was the scene of intense piracy. |
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In this era, the Royal Navy provided services around the world that benefited other nations, such as the suppression of piracy and blocking the slave trade. |
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The Royal Navy moved to stop other nations from continuing the slave trade and declared that slaving was equal to piracy and was punishable by death. |
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In the period between the 8th and 14th centuries, there was much piracy in the Baltic from the coasts of Pomerania and Prussia, and the Victual Brothers even held Gotland. |
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Some 2014 research examines the links between piracy and entrepreneurship. |
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How should the international community respond to Somali piracy? |
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In English admiralty law, piracy was classified as petit treason during the medieval period, and offenders were accordingly liable to be drawn and quartered on conviction. |
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By the next century, piracy from North Africans superseded Viking raids. |
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Many nations forbid ships to enter their territorial waters or ports if the crew of the ships are armed, in an effort to restrict possible piracy. |
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Modern piracy can also take place in conditions of political unrest. |
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The other smaller, less developed areas were recovered in stages and relieved of Dutch piracy in the next two decades by local resistance and Portuguese expeditions. |
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In Mombasa, Dom Vasco da Gama resorted to piracy, looting Arab merchant ships, which were generally unarmed trading vessels without heavy cannons. |
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With the end of the Cold War, navies have decreased in size and patrol less frequently, while trade has increased, making organized piracy far easier. |
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As usage increases, many of these ships have to lower cruising speeds to allow for navigation and traffic control, making them prime targets for piracy. |
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They also resented that the Sinhalese were committing attacks and piracy towards neighboring countries who had diplomatic relations with Ming China. |
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Privateering, similar to piracy, continued as an asset in war for a few more decades and proved to be of some importance during the naval campaigns of the American Civil War. |
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