Ahoy!

Welcome to Pirated Material, soon to be the Internet's premier pirate-related news aggregator, commentator, and general big-upper.
First off, I have no qualifications to be coined a piracy expert of any sort (although my dad is in the Canadian Navy, and I played far too many hours of the original Sid Meier's Pirates back in the mid-90s). But the resurgence of pirates, especially off the coast of everybody's favourite failed state, Somalia, needs as much appreciation as possible.
Really, there hasn't been much in the way of sea-faring pirates since, oh, I dunno, the 19th century? That sounds about right.
But because the Horn of Africa is ripe with sea traffic and lawlessness, and international waters have always been difficult to patrol, the especially unscrupulous and profit-oriented of East Africa and southern Middle East have turned their talents to the high seas. I guess highway robbing Bedouins and Islamists isn't as profitable as it once was.
Either way, the more pirate-related headlines the better, this newsman has always said. Let us begin...
First off, that massive supertanker some crafty rogues shanghai'd last year has been released, but unfortunately, some of the fellers who made off with $3 million in ransom money are now resting, fittingly, at the bottom of the Indian Ocean after a storm blew their boat under. I know I'll be having a spot of Madeira tonight in their honour.