Did you know Sweden has a new political party? The Pirate Party! The new political party is devoted to pursuing policy that favors file sharing, P2P and privacy. (Check out this interview with the founder to learn more.)
Real-world politics aside: consider some set of accomplished pirates (and/or their landlubber allies) earning a pardon from the Crown, beginning a respected life as a noble – and then beginning to forment political action to further legitimize and liberate pirate-like activities from Governmental supervision. As if the entire industry of piracy had a new political layer to keep it safe from the Government’s own Navy’s! What would you do with such a game of pirates at court? How would a pirate band act differently, in this more dynamic political context? To a band of self-interested anarchist bandits, would they necessarily care?