Reply #46: Interesting that the only link you provided seeks to "re-define" it to include "maritime terrorism."

[The Stranger]

The current definition of piracy is completely inadequate as a tool for policymakers. The leading statistics and reporting systems are misleading. Most acts cited are not classic boarding and hijacking of merchant vessels on the high seas. A reformulation of the definition of piracy will help focus efforts at combating the scourge.

Current definitions of piracy are inadequate as a tool for policymakers and need to change. According to Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Mohd Najib Tun Razak, "At present the International Chamber of Commerce's International Maritime Bureau (IMB) groups all forms of piracy under one category of piracy. Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore feel that acts of piracy should be separated according to the crime committed."1 To meet his challenge to provide a useful definition for maritime crimes, the U.N. International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the IMB should revise existing definitions of piracy to include four categories of maritime crimes: corruption, sea robbery, piracy, and maritime terrorism.

Not only does that imply that what is going on is not piracy, as the definition is inadquate for the author's purposes, this group wants to expand the definition conceptually.