p2pnet - rss feed: Pirates in ‘brazen attack’
p2p news / p2pnet: A cruise liner attacked by pirates off Somalia has docked in the Seychelles after a rocket-propelled grenade was removed from a passenger cabin, says the BBC, going on:
“Most of the 151 passengers - mainly from the US, Europe and Australia - are to fly home from the Seychelles after a stop in Mombasa, Kenya, was cancelled.” Pirates seize ships and crews to hold them for ransom, says the Beeb.
However, no file sharers were reported to have been involved.
“Saturday’s brazen attack, 100 miles (140km) off the Somali coast, has been widely blamed on pirates, who regularly attack cargo ships and trading vessels off the Horn of Africa,” adds says the story.
“But Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer refused to rule out the possibility that attackers deliberately targeted the US-owned ship in an act of terrorism.”
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BBC - Cruiser docks after pirate escape, November 7, 2005
November 7th, 2005 at 1:54 pm
Ooh, pirates! Sue, RIAA, sue!!
November 7th, 2005 at 3:31 pm
I wonder if they would sue if it was a container ship full of their CD’s that was pillaged?
November 7th, 2005 at 6:51 pm
Aaargh, RIAA, who put sand in the vasoline
November 7th, 2005 at 9:05 pm
They would have to! STEALING MUSIC!!! Now that’s REAL piracy. Not some pantywaist RPG attack on a stinking cruise ship. That’s just sissy piracy. Gimme Edonkey 2000 and a DVD burner and I’ll show ya some REAL piracy, ya yellow bellied landlubbers!
November 7th, 2005 at 9:34 pm
Now that’s REAL piracy…. ARRRHHHHGGGG —Ahoy Matey, Gimme all ya loot!!!! AAARRRHHH!!!!!
November 8th, 2005 at 12:16 am
all funny, untill some dumbass cop/cartel dude/politician decides people are dumb enough to equate REAL pirates with filesharing pirates, and the enforcment agencies decide to just come in shooting - and poor little jonny. while he’s downloading ‘girls gone wild’ get’s slaughtered by overzealous cartel lapdogs.
November 8th, 2005 at 1:03 am
Did anyone have to “swab the deck?” Was Johnny Depp involved?
November 8th, 2005 at 1:37 am
Tinsel town gossip has it that the entire episode was a camera rehearsal ordered by cinematographer J. King Hoff, the director of photography, upon the explicit instructions of the Associate Producer in charge of Budget Restrictions pertaining to casting extras. Spokesperson for the Production Studio, speaking on behalf of the President of the Motion Pictures Cartel of America (MPCA), explained that cost overruns had impelled the unusual daytime scene run-through in order to provide sufficient lighting for hidden cameras to capture the illegal use of hidden cameras during the filming of an action scene in the upcoming flick, “Pirates of the Seychelles – Part II: Return of the Sheik of Baghdad”.
The MPCA is in the process of databasing names and addresses of anyone caught illegally filming the scene in violation of screenplay copyright or anyone who might be tempted to talk to the tabloids with “inside stories” regarding the highly dramatic reenactment of one of the highlights of the film which is scheduled for release early in 2006. Confidential sources reveal that at least 130 persons were caught on film secretly filming the rehearsal with their personal vid-cams. Upper management at “Pirated Productions, Ltd.” was overwhelmingly pleased with the results of the carefully orchestrated sting.
The main musical theme (“They Don’t Wear Pants On The Other Side Of France”) is expected to become one the year’s highest grossing songs because the Recording Industry Cartel of America (RICA) has predicted a 97.5% success rate in the DRM legal actions already being planned.
Recent statistics have shown that the 97.5% success rate against persons who cannot afford to fight back is completely realistic and might, in fact, be conservative, especially in light of the number of judges that have 1) declined to Dismiss Upon Motion by Defendant asserting lack of in res or in persona jurisdiction, or 2) have upheld the rights of plaintiffs to proceed even where the action is flawed asserting that defects can be corrected after Discovery, and 3) overruling Defense Objections by citing the precedence established early on in the history of these suits that if a person is innocent, he’s got nothing to worry about.
Many of the judges who have upheld the rulings in favor of the cartels point out that we need to stand in respect for those who are directly responsible for such philanthropic gestures as the funding of the Scholarship Award Funds For Underprivileged Offsprings of the Defenders of Jurisprudence, the establishment of the MPCA Charitable Trust and Lifetime Endowment Organization in Furtherance of Judicial Excellence, and the Anonymous Recipients of the Libby-Rove Medal and Lifetime Subsidy Grant Honoring the Champions of Patriotism.
As Justice Beauregard Taft-Bucchanan put it at a recent White House Reception and Press Conference, “Who ya gonna b’lieve? The fine, upstanding citizens of the community who do what they can to make things better? Or some snot-nosed, pimply-faced teenager who only knows how to try to get somethin’ for nuttin!”
November 8th, 2005 at 5:54 am
No cruise ship flies the US flag - they are all registered in countries like Liberia and other ‘flags of convenience’.
Send out the Liberian Navy and leave the US taxpayers alone!
November 8th, 2005 at 3:27 pm
The cruise ships that do the one week circuit around the Hawaiian Islands all fly the US Flag. Most of the cruise ships that ply the Caribbean during peak season fly the Panamanian Flag, mainly so they get a significant discount going through the Canal when they head for the South Pacific and Asia. Many ship owners are transferring their registration away from Liberia given the political turmoil that the ouster of Samuel Doe caused in that country.