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You want an anti-pirate system that will work? That's easy, we've had a working system for centuries!

You hang 'em from the yardarm as a warning to others, and then you burn their ships to the water line.

Pardon? Oh, you mean the OTHER kind of piracy.

Hanging by the yardarm also had loopholes. (Ann Bonny and Mary Read both realized this.)

So, out of curiosity, down-voted because it wasn't funny, or because jokes aren't encouraged?

Probably a little of both.