Piracy, aaaarrh piracy. Not since Jesus got away with violent conduct and wilful damage in the local market after a heavy stint on a little too much communion wine has criminal activity been so romanticised or socially accepted.

But piracy has changed over the years, and looking back we can see it ripple and flow, just like the undulating seas that its original pioneers navigated back in simpler times, when men were men, and parrots were ace.