An illustration from 19th-century artist Howard Pyle depicts a man being forced to walk the plank. Although there is no record of this type of punishment, it remains popular in pirate mythology.

The Swedish web pirate who walked the plank Gottfrid Svartholm Warg became a hacktivist hero after his arrest in Cambodia, and there were plenty more twists before his release. PUBLISHED : 4 Oct ...

EZTV, the influential piracy site, walked the plank for the last time this week, 10 years after it began distributing torrent files of the most popular TV shows illegally.

Two and a half years ago, Akella and Playlogic released Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales, an adventure/sim/RPG hybrid of life on the seas in search of treasure, fame and glory. Apart from boarding ...