Latest news about Piracy


Aon launches marine piracy cover (Business Insurance)

LONDON — Aon Corp. has developed a new policy for shipowners, charterers and cargo owners to cover loss of earnings caused by piracy.

4 Dec 2008, 9:41 am | click here for more

V.i. Labs to Offer Software Vendors Free Piracy Analysis (Centre Daily Times)

V.i. Laboratories, Inc. (“V.i. Labs”), a provider of software protection solutions for securing high-value and mission-critical applications, is now offering a free assessment for software vendors that want to gain insight into how their products are being are targeted for piracy.

4 Dec 2008, 8:17 am | click here for more

Inside Game Piracy, Part 2: The Countermeasures (Gamasutra)

[Yesterday, Gamasutra spoke to the ESA and the PC Gaming Alliance about just how complex video game piracy really is, and how a combination of enforcement and education can form a solid foundation to battle it. Completing our two-part special on piracy, we look at countermeasures against PC piracy, from Mass Effect to Titan Quest and beyond, with the PC Gaming Alliance's Christian Svensson ...

4 Dec 2008, 7:03 am | click here for more

Add piracy to 'failed state' Somalia's woes (The Washington Times)

Rampant piracy plaguing the Gulf of Aden off the Somali coast will be difficult to curb without political progress within Somalia, a country that has arrive to exemplify the term "failed state."

4 Dec 2008, 3:58 am | click here for more

Sailors learn to cope with piracy (BBC Gateshead)

A three-day course on how to survive piracy is being run for sailors at a training centre in Newcastle.

4 Dec 2008, 3:24 am | click here for more

Sailors learn to cope with piracy (BBC News)

A three-day course on how to survive piracy is being run for sailors in Newcastle.

4 Dec 2008, 3:10 am | click here for more

Ukraine should take part in fighting international piracy – president (Itar-Tass)

KIEV, December 4 (Itar-Tass) - Ukraine should take part in the battle against international piracy, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said.

4 Dec 2008, 11:32 am | click here for more

A New Approach to Piracy (Foreign Policy Blogs)

In The Washington Post Peter Fromuth advocates taking a new approach to piracy and abandoning a strategy that he argues has been largely the same for two-thousand years.

4 Dec 2008, 10:57 am | click here for more

Libya accuses Israel of piracy (TVNZ)

Libya accused Israel of piracy at a meeting of the UN Security Council for preventing a Libyan boat from delivering humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip.

4 Dec 2008, 10:42 am | click here for more

Cruise industry releases statement on piracy (USA Today)

The Cruise Lines International Association, which represents the cruise industry, released the following statement about the issue of piracy: “While piracy involving cruise ships at sea is extraordinarily rare, the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) and its members take this...

4 Dec 2008, 10:00 am | click here for more

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