Pirates in Paradise

Group - 10
What is Piracy ??
1. Practice of attacking & robbing ships at sea
2. The unauthorized use or reproduction of anothers work
Piracy in the eyes on International law
Any illegal act of violence or detention, or any act of depredation, committed for private
ends by the crew or passengers of a private ship or private aircraft, & directed
On the high seas, against another ship or aircraft, or against persons or property on
board such ship or aircraft
Against a ship, aircraft, persons or property in a place outside the jurisdiction of any
state
Any act of voluntary participation in the operation of a ship or of an aircraft with the
knowledge of facts making it a pirate ship or aircraft
I think piracy is a bit like drinking. You want to stay out all night doing it, you pay
the price the next day.
Evolution of Piracy
Opportunistic
piracy
(before 1970s)
Piracy by forming
syndicates
(After 1970s)
Insurance Fraud
Cargo fraud
Hull fraud
Documentary
Fraud
Cargo Diversion
Drug trafficking & human smuggling
1979, >40 suspicions claims $100mn
in 2 years Establishment of FERIT
decline, prosecutions, association with
Chinese nationalist party left most
of the perpetrators free

False documents, bills of lading,
certificates of commercial invoices,
upon identification of fraud by the
buyer seller disappeared,
liquidation
Phantom Ships (late 1980s) False
registered ships Cargos were
never delivered to the proper
destination
After 6 months, auctioned the cargo
without owners permission & even
auctioned the ship
Chinese refused to return the ship even
upon discovering its true identity,
demanded $400,000 to the owner
Detained by Chinese Defense Authorities
Proceeded to the Chinese port(now as
Artic Sea)
Attacked in the gulf of Thailand by pirates
Left South east of Bangkok for Manila
Anna Sierra (Cyprus registered)
Whenever profit is made, someone, somewhere is getting exploited !!
Oil & Money extorted was taken by
Chinese officials. Petro ranger was
returned to the owner
Pirates were sent to Indonesia
Chinese officers caught them selling oil in
Hainan (black market for oil)
Diverted towards South China as Wilby
Captured by pirates near Malaysia
Cargo : 10000 tonnes of automotive oil
worth $1.5 MN
Petro Ranger(From Singapore)
Who was exploited : Crew members(killed in both cases) & Owners of the ship,
Insurance companies
By whom : Syndicate owners, Chinese officials, Ship owners
Class Struggles
Oppressed :
Pirates -
unemployment,
underdeveloped
economies
crew members
Neither the owner
nor the govt. cared
Global trading
community formed
IMO/IMB/PRC to
maintain their interests
Oppressed by :
Syndicate owners &
Government
Form
Formation of
IMO/IMB/PRC
Content
Only commercial
vessels were
protected or
accounted for
Govts. Reluctant to
report 4 reasons
Bad publicity
Danger of local &
unofficial
discrimination
Problems with
crew union
Risk of rising
insurance
premiums
Fetish/Commodification
Piracy started to encapture selling off of vessels, smuggling of humans, drug
smuggling, diversion of cargo
IMB started to account every petty theft also as a piracy
Piracy Objective reality
Piracy as Objective Reality
No concern for location of crime
Mode, means and scale of crime unimportant
Root cause of economic and political fallacies neglected
Ideology
Piracy market Free market
Relatively mild punishments Govt. collusion at times
Cheap and abundant labour
No Govt. intervention
Cricket
BCCI ICC
FORM - TO show the world that they are promoting cricket and domestic indian players
IPL IMB/IMO ( CONTENT main motive make money & safeguard their interest)
Some of them Corrupt
Players Bureaucrats
Pirates mix with corrupt players to tarnish the image of Cricket/BCCI
Non players
IMO = ICL nobody watches them.
Cricket Surplus
Profit making body BCCI
IPL Money minting machine
International cricket games
Big daddy of criketing community sponsors
Screening rights
At the expense of:
Other games in the country
Player fatigue IPL
Other state cricket boards
Cricket - Class Struggles
Oppressed :
Domestic players
State boards
Other sports
Media and press
Oppressed by
: BCCI
Form
Formation of IPL to show
the world that they are
promoting cricket and
give a platform to
budding domestic Indian
players
Content
Make money out of IPL
glamourized avatar of
cricket
Domestic players
demotivated to improve
skills for real test of cricket,
rather they get motivated
by quick money and thus
resort to measures like spot
fixing
Players stay too close to
glamour drugs, sex, etc.
Fetish/Commodification
IPL meant more than Cricket. Movies, songs, advertisements, FMCG products, alcohol, drugs & partying came in
the loop.
BCCI started roping in every mode of money making which they could possibly think of.
Piracy Cricket as Objective Reality
Cricket as means of making money
Players were neglected, considered expendable at the cost of the glamour of the game
Add-on frills are being seen as intrinsic to cricket
Ideology
Cricket Free market
No strict punishment for match fixing players and non-players operate freely
Hoards of players at BCCIs expense
IPL
Politics and economics of a state are
fathers of Piracy
Hypothesis