Piracy Legal Conditions

Which legal conditions were more difficult for pirates in the early age of piracy or in modern day could be debated. Early piracy experienced the more sever capital punishment, but encouraged privateering communities. As William Kidd points out however, there is a fine line between following the letter of marque and disobeying the law. Modern pirate laws face different challenges, but policing the seas is now a cooperative effort that largely considers a fair treatment of pirates on trial.
In my opinion, Piracy is a crime that has been around for an extremely long time and this will not change. The only thing that we can change will be the number of pirates at sea by rooting out the problems; we will be able to help some of the pirates who