Justice Souter said that in the 18th century, there were three offenses that were seen as violating the contemporary concept of international law: violation of a promise to give "safe conduct," piracy and "infringement of the rights of ambassadors".
Customs officials said this was the largest Internet software piracy investigation ever conducted across international borders.
About 15 countries conduct anti-piracy naval patrols in the Indian Ocean under various hats.
France has also bolstered surveillance in the region, with reports that the French military will conduct anti-piracy training in Benin and Togo later this year.
Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu of Turkey, whose country's once close relations with Israel have deteriorated markedly since Israel's invasion of Gaza in 2008, called the attack "tantamount to banditry and piracy; it is murder conducted by a state".
With the nearest friendly African port located in Mombasa, Kenya 1,700 miles away the United States, NATO, and the European Union have no alternative to using Djibouti's harbor as a sanctuary to conduct anti-piracy operations.
Rather, regional navies or coastguards should be encouraged to pool their resources in order to conduct anti-piracy patrols, modelled on the Malacca Strait Patrol - which conducted by the navies of Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, resulted in a noticeable decrease of piracy in this former hot spot.
Last week, a UK court ordered British internet service providers to block access to EZTV and YIFY Torrents after they were found to be conducting internet piracy on a "mass scale".
Our staffs signed a few initiatives in that regard, including a commitment to conduct joint counter-piracy exercises in the Gulf of Aden this year.
To deal with this problem, West African nations met in Cameroon in late June and adopted a code of conduct for dealing with piracy.
