Piracy-At Sea and Online

摘要

Piracy on the high seas has drawn quite a lot of attention in the past year. The taking of the Maersk Alabama in April 2009 was the first successful pirate raid on an American-flagged ship since the early 19th century. Pirates may not look like Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean of fiction (though we'll see himrnagain soon, as a fourth installation or the movie franchise is due in 2011), but his non-fictional brethren are still having a significant impact on trade and security throughout the world. Countless web pages about historical piracy exist, but, unlike most historical subjects, there's a fairly limited amount of intelligent content online.