The trailer shows armed SWAT police raiding homes and arresting the mothers of would-be pirates.

With the hacker-developed software, a would-be pirate can make a flawless copy of a DVD movie in less than an hour.

That should discourage many would-be pirates.

The bodies were then tarred and suspended on the riverbank, as a warning to other would-be pirates.

His body was gibbeted - left to hang in an iron cage over the Thames at Tilbury Point - as a warning to future would-be pirates for twenty years.

At various times governments indiscriminately granted authorization for privateering to a variety of ships, so much so that would-be pirates could easily operate under a veil of legitimacy.

The environment changes so quickly that even would-be pirates say they find it hard to keep up.

(Noble, which has caught three would-be pirates in the act in the last two years and delivered them to the authorities, asked that Bob's last name not be printed.)

His body was gibbeted over the River Thames at Tilbury Point-as a warning to future would-be pirates for three years.

But those technologies hindered would-be pirates in important ways: copies could be time-consuming and expensive to make, and of lower quality than the original.