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...Blocking is seen to be one of the most effective tools in tackling piracy in the industry....
...But a video posted on an Iranian army-linked Telegram channel last month, in English, described the vessel as a “floating armoury” and insisted it had a role in combating piracy....
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...“It doesn’t necessarily lend itself to the kind of gold rush we had with the earlier wave of Somali piracy,” he said....
...Some coastal states also stepped up anti-piracy action....
...India’s navy has multiple assets deployed in the region to combat both piracy and the threat from the Houthis....
...The attack follows a warning in an interview last month by the head of the International Maritime Organization, the UN body for maritime affairs, over the threat of a resurgence in piracy....
...This is piracy,” he said....
...The anti-piracy operations of recent decades are different from a broader and sustained security threat....
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...Previously, Adele’s 25 sold 3.4mn first-week albums in 2015, while Nsync’s No Strings Attached sold 2.4mn in 2000, just before the music business was decimated by online piracy....
...targeted or hit other ships in the Indian Ocean in recent weeks, the MSC Orion attack was the first recognised by one of the international organisations working to safeguard the area’s vital sea lanes against piracy...
...That depended on commercial shipowners, who paid for armed guards on their transits through Somali piracy hotspots....
...Reports last week suggested that so-called porch piracy in the UK had jumped 500 per cent in the past four years....
...When it comes to your end of the conversation, you’re left with lines such as “I want to be an infamous pirate” and “There is no room for shame in piracy” — which make you feel less like a bloodthirsty buccaneer...
...the essential partner to anyone who recognises the threat of piracy to their business.”...
...This was its slowest growth rate since 2016, when the business had just begun to bounce back from its piracy-driven downturn....
...The vessel, which is mostly used for counter-terrorism exercises and tackling piracy and smuggling, is usually based around the Mediterranean....
...“There’s a little bit of that now but . . . piracy has evolved from peer-to-peer streaming to closed network subscriptions.”...
...The growth in streaming platforms such as Spotify — which helped tackle the widespread piracy during the early years of digital music — has enabled labels to take a greater share of overall revenue....
...The rise of “porch piracy” provides a seed of hope, however. Local retailers can help by agreeing to receive these orders on behalf of customers, as many already do....
...It had been a big commercial hit in 2014 — at a time when the music industry was still decimated by piracy, with streaming not yet making up for the losses. 1989 (Taylor’s Version) arrives as US recorded...
...“We are not fighting piracy here. We are fighting a much more complex thing, which is, non-state actor with hybrid fighting abilities,” said one official, referring to the Houthis....
...“Clearly a piracy-related incident,” he added. Concerns had arisen that the Central Park incident could have marked another attempt by the Iran-allied rebels to hijack a commercial vessel....
...Whereas in Joseph Conrad’s The Rover, after a lifetime of piracy on the eastern seas, the protagonist escaped to the nearby Giens Peninsula to find peace and a safe harbour to end his days....
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