IMO, pirate ships should be sunk. Period. No talk, no negotiation, no bull. Ten gallons of blood in the water and voila, lotsa fish with triangular fins. YUM.

The age of piracy ended effectively with the end of the sailing era--that is, when steam came in. At that time wind ships were slower than powered ships and to keep ahead (get away), pirates would have to move to powered ships and thus touch base to fuel up on coal or oil or diesel. Touching base was the hard part. After various nations (England, Spain, etc.,) quit the pirate business, that was that. I do not understand why the various navies are reluctant to blow 'em out of the water. That holds true for ships sunk or ransacked by 'pirates' in the Caribbean or the Sea of Cortez or the coastal areas of California. Why waste money on courts. They have stated by their actions what they (pirates) think is fitting action. Well, let them have the same. Sorry, but I have NO compassion for those bastards, and that's that.