A short rope and a long drop.

Sorry to offend anyone, but piracy -- now and historically -- has been one of the nastiest things humans do to each other. Edward Low, Teach, the creatures who inhabited Cave-In-Rock and the rest have nothing over the modern sludge who preyed on fleeing Vietnamese boat people and still prey on whatever and whoever they can. Pirates have, and still do, sell people into slavery.

A coalition of nations, a joint naval task force dedicated to wiping them out, would meet with my approval anyway.