Comments on: Video Game Piracy Taken Literally

By: RC-1290'Dreadnought'

RC-1290'Dreadnought' — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:41:24 +0000

[Last edit(sorry, *sigh*)]
@Deuteronomy
Aiming a weapon at an armed pirate might only make you life worse… or stop. And unless you are going to arm the merchant ships with RLRM(Real life right management) nukes, those pirates will always find a way to get ahead in the arms race. “Just like on the internet”.

By: RC-1290'Dreadnought'

RC-1290'Dreadnought' — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:37:10 +0000

[Edit] Or maybe you spotted a flaw in the system?

By: RC-1290'Dreadnought'

RC-1290'Dreadnought' — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:35:51 +0000

@Larington
Are you talking about conventional speakers? Because I was talking about a technology that allows you to send out sound in a straight line. You can really aim this stuff, because it starts out as sound with much higher frequency, or something like that(I don’t know how it works exactly). This is already being used by the (American?) army. Or maybe Discovery channel started lying to me.

By: Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:32:43 +0000

Why don’t they just arm the merchant ships? I’m sure a single deck gun would scare those fishing boats away.

By: Piratepete

Piratepete — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:06:20 +0000

Excellent. My plan is coming to fruition.

Soon all your games am beloung to US!

muuhahahahahhahahhhahhahahhahhahahhahhahahhaha

By: Darth

Darth — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:10:53 +0000

“I vote any and all gamers gather somewhere, hijack some kind of warship, take a trip down there and kill us them pirates keeping our games away from us!”

I feel this is an idea that could only end well.

In fact, someone should make a game about it…

By: Rhade

Rhade — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:33:44 +0000

I vote any and all gamers gather somewhere, hijack some kind of warship, take a trip down there and kill us them pirates keeping our games away from us!

By: Darth

Darth — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:31:06 +0000

“But the big issue is that no major response from any of the outlying naval bases stationed in the area has been made and there is no reason for these guys to stop just yet.”

Although there isn’t a huge amount of news coverage of the area apart from when a ship gets seized, there are quite a few navies operating in the area. The yanks have a few boats down there, as do the Russians. A British frigate saw action defending shipping against a pirate attack just last week.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7725742.stm

Unfortunately its a very busy shipping route and there are only so many warships to patrol it. There is a significant infastructure behind the pirates and it will be some time before the area is made safe once more.

By: Stromko

Stromko — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:04:54 +0000

Maerd: I wouldn’t call modern-day pirates modern-day ‘robinhoods’, for the same reason that old pirates weren’t classical robin-hoods. They take from whoever they can catch and give to themselves.

The only heroes in this are the ones not getting rich off of it. We need less people and powers taking advantage of the instability and more trying to solve it from the ground up. Peace comes down to individuals, instilling in them a realistic hope for the future and the means to improve it without destroying the lives of others. The pirates are no better than the greedy industrialists, revolutionaries, and dictators that have caused so much pain and death.

By: D

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:57:35 +0000

Those attacks are up from one every few weeks to four in a single day, according to Sam Dawson of the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF)

So.. where are the numbers that provide proof to those HIGHLY ESTIMATED piracy rates?

By: BeamSplashX

BeamSplashX — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:53:31 +0000

I actually thought of that mission in Call of Duty 4 when I imagined a forceful recapture of boats taken by pirates. Can you imagine getting a mission objective like that in a game?

“Dammit, Miller! Secure the Wii Fit balance boards or the mission will fail! Summers, have you cleaned out the JRPG Storage Area yet? Summers? SUMMERRRRRRRRS!”

By: Klaus

Klaus — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:59:27 +0000

I did not close the italics tag. Woe is me.