[TheTarquin]

You want an anti-pirate system that will work? That's easy, we've had a working system for centuries!

You hang 'em from the yardarm as a warning to others, and then you burn their ships to the water line.

Pardon? Oh, you mean the OTHER kind of piracy.

[stcredzero]

Hanging by the yardarm also had loopholes. (Ann Bonny and Mary Read both realized this.)

[TheTarquin]

So, out of curiosity, down-voted because it wasn't funny, or because jokes aren't encouraged?

[wmf]

Probably a little of both.