The Pros And Cons Of Piracy

In 2005, nine young Australian men were arrested in Indonesia for attempting to smuggle 8.3kg of heroin out of Indonesia. The group’s two ringleaders, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, were sentenced to death by the Indonesian court. With all appeals for clemency rejected, they were executed by firing squad on the 29th April 2015 (‘Bali Nine: Timeline of key events’, 2015). Following the execution, many members of the public questioned whether this decision by the Indonesian Government was justified. Relating arguments from different perspective including the Indonesia’s sovereign right, debated the effect on the international relationship and the deterrent effect on the drug trade in Indonesia. Although the men were already executed, it is important to understanding the rationality of the justification behind this decision, as it determines whether to support or to prevent similar decision, if and when the same situation happen again.

In the global market that we leave in companies are trying to find any and everyway that they can to get ahead in their respective markets. This most of the time brings out the most innovate thinkers that can come up with a way to keep it’s company on top of their market and sometimes we see that there are companies that like to take a short cut by using non legal and malicious methods. According to Lewis, (1985), Software piracy is the illicit copying of the operating instructions and applications programs, which make computers work, is a large and growing industry. The Pirate Bay is part of a European social and political movement that opposes copyrighted content and demands that music, videos, TV shows, and other digital content be free and unrestricted. In the words of the Pirate Party, “the Pirate Bay is a unique platform for distributing culture between regular people and independent artists, and that’s something we want to preserve.”

During the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries, piracy was rampant in the Atlantic, specifically in the West Indies. Piracy has existed since the earliest days of ocean travel, for a range of personal and economic reasons. However, one of the major reasons why piracy was wide spread and rampant in the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries was Great Britain’s endorsement and usage of piracy as an asset; in wars fought in the New World. Great Britain with its expanding power and conflicts with other nations would make piracy a lifestyle and lay down the foundation for the Golden Age of Piracy and eventually bring what it created to a screeching halt.

One solution in preventing organized crime will be to charge all persons involved in illegal activities. To bring these people to justice and made an example. These individuals should face hard time for their illegal activities.

Efforts to end piracy began during ancient times. This Island of Rhodes was the first to include piracy in their maritime laws. In the Golden Age almost every nation had established maritime laws. Sir Charles Hedges, a judge of the British Admiralty Court during the late 1600’s, says “pirates are thieves who seize a ship and/or its cargo through violent means upon the sea”. Despite many legal attempts to stop piracy an international definition of piracy did not exist till 1958. Article 15, 1958 Geneva Convention of the High Seas and Article 101, 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea defines piracy as “a violent seizure on the high seas of a private ship or the illegal detainment of persons property aboard said ship for the purpose of private gain, nor can a government commit an act of piracy”.

After analyzing the 6 sources I have chosen for this Investigation, I have come to 3 conclusions on why pirates were drawn to Singapore from the 13th to 19th century.

Criminal justice system has been an important aspect of every society and has proven to be effective in many way over the period of decades. Nevertheless, there are many areas and situations that it has come short in delivery what it is set up for due to human erroneous nature in executing justice. Even though criminal justice systems differs from one country to another, there are also many similarities among them. The most obvious one is that they have a common goal to administer justice, protect human rights, enforce the law and secure the people and their properties. Another area of concern in criminal justice system is the practice of capital punishment in which there is a strong disapproval its practices. In has been observed

Hollywood portrays pirates as swashbuckling outlaws with their own set of rules and loose morals, nefarious hideouts, and adventure at every turn of their lives; but that’s Hollywood. During the Golden Age of Piracy, about 1550 to 1730, pirates did traverse the Atlantic almost completely unchallenged; producing some of the most notorious pirates and privateers the world had ever seen. But not all of these pirates were outlaws, most were actually legal. And their hideouts weren’t really hideouts at all; just cities that were afraid of the Spanish and thought the pirates could protect them. And adventure? Well, some of the best and most infamous pirates didn’t want the epic battles that are pictured in many of today’s films. Something else

The United Nations and many of its committees and non-governmental organizations are actively involved in putting a stop to piracy and making the affected areas safe for trade ships and privately owned vessels to sail. The UN has several anti-piracy organizations that monitor and fight pirating. These NGOs (non-governmental organizations) include the IMO (International Maritime Organization), the IMB (International Maritime Bureau), and the BMC (Bureau of Maritime Crimes). The United Nations also uses the PRC (Piracy Reporting Centre) to collect incident reports and other data on pirate attacks. Within the UN there are also committees in charge of combatting piracy, some of which include: the Maritime Safety Committee and The Maritime Security

To answer these questions, it is important to get to know, what the challenges that SIDS face are. Because of extensive and open coastlines, SIDS are facing various forms of transnational organized crimes such as: drugs and guns smuggling, money laundering, piracy, human trafficking. SIDS is also very sensitive to climate change, climate variability, sea level rise and natural disasters. In addition, these Islands are also facing problems like: their small size, remoteness from large markets, illicit exploitation of natural resources and more. Each of these issues is very significant and need to be helped with.

Digital piracy on music has been a majorly disputed affair for the last eighteen years, about whether or not it favors the musical artists or affects them in a negative fashion. One of the many sides of the Digital piracy controversy expounds that it benefits the artist(s) by giving them a great deal of exposure that they may not have received had they not downloaded it for free, which in turn makes for a very significant acquisition in terms of sales on their part.

In this 40 minute interview I was accompanied by Abdi Mohammed Said who recently visited Somalia. Mohammed Said grew up in Mogadishu the capital of Somalia. He moved to The Netherlands in 1991. “Some of my friends are fisherman the only thing they want to do is survive” he says. “What the mainstream media is ignoring is why Somali piracy started in the

Then yesterday I saw two guys in black outfits posting flyers on everyone's doorstep about another company. I just watched to see if they saw me watching them and it seems like they did not. Then I realized that one guy looks like Fat and the other Crab Cakes. They were the once destroying misleading business and keeping legit ones. That's possibly why most people can't keep a job around here because so many people make bootleg stuff to get extra profit and no one is original. Then it all made sense now, they were just trying to stop the bootleg business not hunt for me. Then I went home and told my parents to why more and more people are losing jobs and that it was because of Fat. This town had so many people that could be successful that

Online piracy is commonly referred to as a threat to businesses in the creative industries. The WTO Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (a.k.a. “the TRIPS” agreement) defines piracy as:

Laws serve several purposes in the criminal justice system. The main purpose of criminal law is to protect, serve, and limit human actions and to help guide human conduct. Also, laws provide penalties and punishment against those who are guilty of committing crimes against property or persons. In the modern world, there are three choices in dealing with criminals’ namely criminal punishment, private action and executive control. Although both private action and executive control are advantageous in terms of costs and speed, they present big dangers that discourage their use unless in exceptional situations. The second purpose of criminal law is to punish the offender. Punishing the offender is the most important purpose of criminal law