Wall Street Journal had an
article about some pirates taking over a US cargo ship. Now, you'd think there would better security or something these days? Or is it all the same as back in the days? Can you just take over a ship if your ship is as fast and has enough people and guns to take it over?
It's interesting to read how there are still pirate ships or pirates out in the seas looking for "treasure"; May it be someone else's ship or that treasure chest stashed in some secluded island. Scary though, if i were to go on a cruise and pirates took us over! Would it be anything like the movie? haha Damsel in distress and the handsome "good" pirate to the rescue, type of spiel. LOL That'll be the day. Although, my parents did speak about pirates near Asia waters that would do the unimaginable to lil ships trying to escape the reins of communism and any other bad things of those countries. I'm sure plenty of that is still going on today. Godspeed to those that encounter such treachery!
And then there are those pirates of the modern day. Some are proud of it and some try to keep it on the down low. Of course, pirated software, music, movies, etc are all around us and where there's a will, there's a way of just getting what you want (for free!) I suppose people don't frown upon it as much as those other kinds of pirates. People find it fun to oust the money making giants of those industries since for sure they're all gahzillionaires!! haha not so funny if actually one of them =P
Now, which one is more "evil"? Well, that's hard to say but i would expect raping and killing people on their boats as a more DANGEROUS situation than the techy pirates hehe but then it's all in the eye of the beholder =)