**The Golden Age That Never Ended: Piracy’s Global Renaissance** Picture this: while Netflix streams tales of swashbuckling rogues in eyeliner, real pirates—sans the charming Jack Sparrow theatrics—are quietly having their best quarter-century since the 1600s. From the oil-soaked waters of the Gulf of Guinea to the stratospheric corridors of cyberspace, piracy has traded its tricorn…
The Glorious, Illegal Afterlife of Football: A Totalsportek Travelogue By Dave’s Locker Foreign Desk Somewhere between a Moldovan data center and a server rack in Curaçao—jurisdiction shopping at its most romantic—the website Totalsportek continues to thrive like a cockroach after nuclear winter. It is, depending on which intellectual-property lawyer you ask, either the last true…
Dodgers vs. Pirates: A Tragicomic Opera Staged on the High Seas of Global Capital By Our Correspondent Somewhere Between a Tax Haven and a Rum-Soaked Dock The eternal pas de deux between dodgers and pirates has always been less a binary clash of good and evil than a recurring dinner party where the appetizers are…
The Ballad of Streameast: How One More Ghost Ship Sank in the Endless Ocean of Piracy By Dave’s Foreign Desk, somewhere between a cheap hotel minibar and whatever counts as “international waters” these days PARIS—If you listen carefully at 3 a.m. along the Seine, you can almost hear the collective sigh of a million insomniac…
