[condiment]

sounds like a good opportunity to bring back "letters of marque." These were less about authorizing ships to fight back against pirates, and more about authorizing private to your army to find and capture pirate vessels with the expectation that they would be allowed to keep whatever loot they captured. sounds like we're taking a step in that direction as the Internet is being identified as Lawless as the sea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque

[foxyv]

I guess that would put a different spin on the idea of Software Piracy...

[RealityVoid]

I guess it would be more akin to smuggling at this point.

[monarchwadia]

Are you indirectly referencing this bill? https://burchett.house.gov/media/press-releases/burchett-int...

[Bratmon]

It says something about modern Congress that when one of the powers explicitly granted to Congress became relevant for the first time in 100 years, their first instinct was to delegate it away to the President.

[hardlianotion]

He could be referencing this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Letter_of_Marque

[tdiff]

> more about authorizing private to your army to find and capture pirate vessels

I think important detail is that it authorised attacks on any foreign vessel (of a specific nation), not only on pirate ships.