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Also today there are still Piraterie. Particularly in the areas south and Southeast Asia in the southChinese sea, in parts of South America, west coast of Africa and of the south of the Red Sea over the gulf of Aden around the island Sokotra to to the Indian ocean attack the Piraten today modern Schiffe.Auch the road of Malakka and waters around Sri Lanka are considered as uncertain sea-area having the large ships near the coast because of defects or because of weather and/or for time reasons in the straits and/or to drive, reduce it their speed and can then often with speedboats easily of Piraten be geentert. During full travel is this because of the speed of modern ships, the high and the wave formation to and particularly behind the ship not possible. Nevertheless there are also assaults on high lake. It is assumed that parent ships bring the speedboats in position. The Piraten is partly also so strongly armed that the ships can be forced to stopping. If the danger of a over case should exist, then the crew closes all open doors and hatches, on lower deck are partly welded doors. The defense takes place then effectively with water hoses, from which with high pressure water is squirted on attacking Piraten. Exist also electrical fence systems, which are to make the Erklettern of impossible. Also some shipowners give to their crews the instruction, empty bottles on the weather deck for smashed - many Piraten entern the ships barefoot.
The modern Piraten is not interested in most cases in the charge, but rather at contents of the ship Safes, which contains frequently large cash sums, which are intended for the payment of the salaries and the harbour dues.
In some cases the Piraten forced the crew to leave the ship and drove with the gekaperten ship into a port, where it got wrong papers and then among other things names was further-used.
In modern international law only assaults as Piraterie, which on high lake is accomplished, are considered. That follows Convention on the Law OF the Sea from the definition of the articles 15 of the gene EH Convention on the High Seas and article 101 the United nation. Attacks of Piraten, which are to be rated as Piraterie, know of each country these conventions signed to be fought.
1992 were created the Piracy reporting Centre internationally maritime office (IMB Piracy reporting Centre) in Kuala Lumpur. It collects messages over Piraterie and evaluates it, in order shipowners warns and to protect to be able. In addition it helps with the search for robbed ships.
In the year 2004 with pirate-attacked at least 30 humans came around the life, to nine more than still in the previous year, communicated the anti- Piraten center internationally maritime office (IMB) in Kuala Lumpur. 2003 had already doubled itself the number of the victims by Piratenattacken more than. At the same time the IMB registered 2004 however a decrease of the registered assaults of 445 to 329. Focus of the piracy are according to the data still waters of Indonesia, where it came 2004 to 93 well-known attacks. Rank two occupies the road by Malakka between the Indonesian island Sumatra and Malaysia with 37 would attack.
2005 was announced altogether 274 attacks. 440 crew members were kidnapped to usually extort in order release funds. The center is further the area around Indonesia, but before the coast of Somalia the layer particularly aggravated, also through strongly increased demands for ransom has itself.
With hi-jackers one speaks also of Luftpiraten.
See special articles: Plane hi-jacking
Produktpiraterie is forbidden copying and multiplying of goods, for which the legal manufacturers possess invention rights, Design rights and procedural laws. The mark and Produktpirat take over without permission the technical knowledge, which acquired itself an enterprise in work of many years and laborious and under employment of enormous financial means, in order to use it for its products. It uses the admittingness of a mark, which a mark manufacturer attained due to its quality products or expensive Werbekampagnen, in order to deceive the consumer over the actual origin of the commodity and quality. The figure of the Piraten is instrumentalisiert again and again because of their symbol strength in the present, in order to stigmatisieren for example offences against the author and trademark law in the eyes of a broad public. For this reason the medium and software industry speaks today in the framework of Werbekampagnen against illegitimate copying of music pieces and application programs for example of Softwarepiraterie. This expression is however disputed.
See also: Black copy
In allusion on this disputed style means of the medium and software industry Stephan Eissler sketches in response "the modern Freibeuter "as rhetorical figure, in order to refer the abuse of the author and trademark law (for example in connection with doubtful warnings) as legal however nevertheless morally despicable act to brandmarken, and in order to any social consequences. Stephan Eissler: '' Modern trend Freibeuter ''. Up: www.wissen-schaft.org
A literary representation of the Freibeuterwesens in the Elisabethani age is to Andreas Venzkes book Gasparan or the last travel of the Francis Drake (Benziger publishing house, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-545-36531-X).
From first hand of the life of the Freibeuter of the Karibik to read one knows the American pirates of Exquemelin 1968, earthling publishing house) into the Piratenbuch of 1678 -, where among other things the conquest of Panama is described by Henry Morgan.
A scientific book to the topic is the thesis Freibeuter in the Caribbean sea. To the emergence and social transformation of a historical edge movement of franc bar depression 1986, publishing house steam boat). Here one finds also an extensive bibliography.
A book, which is concerned exclusively with the modern Piraterie, is Piraten. The organized crime on lake of Douglas Stewart (Hamburg 2002, Mare publishing house).
In the Belletristik might the novel the treasure island of Robert Louis Stevenson be most well-known, which describes the search for a buried Piratenschatz. The figure of the one-legged rogue Long John Silver from the treasure island took up the Swedish author Larsson in its, wastefully novel of the same name enriched with facts from the year 1995 again.
See also: Treasure map, treasure island, cape-hereditarycalled, Libertalia
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