...no, not the copyright crap, the oldskool kind that happens off the Somali coast etc. Anyway, what's up with this ****?? Instead of paying these guys multi million $$ ransoms, and sending a bunch of expensive (and not terribly effective) warships, why not, you know, arm the crews? It's bat**** insane to send people into pirate infested waters unarmed.
Alternatively, if for some reason you don't want to arm the crew, add 5 or so armed guards to each potentially at risk ship.
Governments could help by patrolling the area with bait ships that look like regular cargo vessels, but are armed and have military personnel (marines) aboard. They could also send armed UAVs, and systematically destroy all small vessels that come anywhere near a cargo ship.
That should do the trick.
Alternatively, if for some reason you don't want to arm the crew, add 5 or so armed guards to each potentially at risk ship.
Governments could help by patrolling the area with bait ships that look like regular cargo vessels, but are armed and have military personnel (marines) aboard. They could also send armed UAVs, and systematically destroy all small vessels that come anywhere near a cargo ship.
That should do the trick.