Has it though? If piracy is the act of invading someone’s private space where they can be isolated them from help and taking from them, is ransomware just modern piracy with less violence?

Of course the sea pirates are still very active on some areas.

To rephrase: global warming becomes a bigger issue as JavaScript adoption grows.

You might be on to something there! Think of all the heat generated by executing all that inefficient code!

I’ll rephrase as well. Problems like inequality or robbery have a tendency to adapt to whatever circumstances we create for them.