The piracy means that warships have to escort ships bringing food.
In addition to the whims of regulators, piracy is also a major problem.
It says piracy and the hijacking of ships off the Somali coast also is adding to the emergency.
The most vociferous critics of Microsoft and the overall proprietary software industry describe the anti-piracy crusade as a sophisticated dog-and-pony show.
Now also includes draft Regional agreement on co-operation in preventing and suppressing ACTS of piracy and armed robbery against ships.
This works only if content owners take the trouble to affix the watermark-and then it only spots duplicates, not other forms of piracy such as recording a movie at a cinema.
On a personal note, I don't endorse piracy.
Analysts say a naval presence alone will not eradicate piracy in the region.
That, plus China's rampant piracy, is why knowledge-based industries such as software love India but shun the Middle Kingdom.
The prescriptions for dealing with piracy are simple enough. Governments must co-operate more energetically to face down pirates and, where necessary, blast them out of the water.
They may not worry about the consequences of digital piracy.
Clinton said the Obama administration will convene a high-level U.S. government interagency meeting on piracy this Friday.
Released Tuesday, the study found that the worldwide PC software piracy rate rose for the second consecutive year, to 41% in 2008 from 38% in the previous year.
India, Malaysia, Indonesia and South Africa have also joined the anti-piracy fray.
Music and movie piracy is rampant because over the last ten years, the market has utterly failed to provide a wide range of preferable legitimate solutions.
Music executives worry about rising piracy and lament the lack of streaming services like Spotify.
It needs to be emphasized that measures such as naval escort, armed apprehension and judicial trial can only contain, rather than root out thoroughly, ACTS of piracy off the Somali coast.
Acts of piracy and armed robbery against ships are of tremendous concern to IMO and to shipping in general.
WHEN Parliament decided, in 1709, to create a law that would protect books from piracy, the London-based publishers and booksellers who had been pushing for such protection were overjoyed.
