I'm only semi serious here but 'Piracy' may well be the correct 'legal' term, even if no violence occured. We may well be already 'at sea' upon the land, or at least according to a certain school of folk who have tried to laid bare the legal systems of various countries.
In Canada, the US, the UK and from the UK by extension, to all Common Law countries, there is a group of folk rightly or wrongly (possibly largely the latter), trying to prove that the 'current' legal system, aimed largely at boistering the coffers of the 'banks' with fiat 'currency', via fining people 'registered' at 'birth' in the 'dock' of the courts, rather than actually delivering any justice, is all based upon the laws of the sea and not the land.
The Common Law derived from travelling circuit judges, deciding to have a uniformity of like punishment for like crimes, appears to be sitting upon an older system of law, if these people are correct. One which draws its terminology ('legalese' and you are correct that you need a lawyer to even attempt to interpret it, which is an interesting point as to, exactly who's society, societies rules should apply), from Roman and earlier 'Maritime Admiralty Law'.
Under that Law :
You are a vessel. Birthed at a harbour. Birthing must be registered, which is an act of transference of the contents of a vessel as Maritime Salvage, to the Harbour Master, to be his chattel property.
The Magna Carta of 1215 was an arrangement made upon the water, between disgruntled land owning Barons and the King, who was rowed out unto the Thames River to sign or die, a document to enshrine certain rights to the People of England.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/c6EFiZJfZvw?feature=oembed
But was it the People, or just the Barons?
People are only mentioned as chattel of the Barons, who were the few to have any power outside the Monarchy.
SO do the people have rights, or are we just chattel slaves?
Try and Pass a Port without one and you'll quickly find yourself a real prisoner. Yet if you cant leave a free country (UK) to enter the land of the free (US) without all the proper paperwork 'submitted' (legalese definition akin to 'begging, subservient, dominated' etc) then are you really free?
Except to "Go Shopping"?
Therefore the act of Theft, which under common law of the land, would entail 'the loss of property' by another and not the re-creation of, (which is the Piracy we are talking about), under Maritime Law, would indeed be taking place upon the High Seas. Yarrghhh!!!
It would be one registered vessel, taking without permission of the harbour master, another registered vessels, registered property (intellectual or otherwise, which in and of itself has also become 'under the owner'ship'' of a third party to whom it was registered as trademark in the first place).
Under the 1688 Declaration and 1689 Bill of Rights (still in force upon the statute books) of the UK (the inspiration for America's Independence 1776 and Bill of Rights 1789-91) a whole host of modern laws are infact in breach of it and should be chucked out, or even that their breachers, should be chucked in jail.
For example, Jack Straw had to admit/point out, that the plans to make a (*cough**
new**cough*) Bill of Rights for the UK (in light of Immigration and largely 'Synthetic Terrorism' by comic book villians, or worse still Four Lions like 'Simply Pathetic Terrorism' that doesn't even warrant a George Carlin 'Dangerous Fun' Award) were infact, despite ALL the newspaper, tv, political tennis debate time, F'IN MUTE!!
AS NO UK POLITICIAN IS ALLOWED TO ALTER THE BILL OF RIGHTS.
THEY SWEAR OATHS TO UPHOLD IT.
AS DID THE QUEEN.
BUT we all know how that turned out.
Happy Jubillee Year
oooh SILLY OLYMPICS too ....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmyz_f8Sx14