When someone speaks about pirates, you usually think first about buccaneer from that era as England and Spain led wars around the Caribbean. The music industry was able to manipulate public so that this term also known as a term for children and young people, who downloads music from the Internet without pay for it.
The real pirates are not interested in music from the Internet, but they have ultra-modern boats, equipped with modern weapons. They take large ships that pass Somalia in sight, steal and take from it crew as hostages in order to get later the ransom for these people from their governments.
Until now, there are no really significant effort by any state, to stop this activity. This is very surprising, especially if you see how the military superpowers or wannabe major powers aka Russia, shows their weapons and ships to highlight their political importance.
How these states explain their inaction? The United States have not any possibility to solve this problem because of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In addition to the newly created Georgia-Russia conflict, and of course Iran. And what about Russia? Russia said recently that they will solve this problem alone. But until now there were only empty promises. And Germany? Well, Germany because of the law situation is not entitled to participate in such confrontations.
In short, everyone is busy with itself and therefore they are ready, to pay money for hostages, because it is a easy solution.
