So, they’ve found the Arctic Sea, the ship that literally dropped off the radar as soon as it hit the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean. It has certainly generated enough rumours to fill a cheap airport novel. Drugs or guns smuggled in during repairs at Kaliningrad, a hijacking in the Baltic Sea, the massive Russian response prompting the Finns to test the port for radioactivity, ransom demands, commercial disputes... The real reason for the satellite tracking transponder being switched off is probably not just that the Russian crew fancied an unauthorised trip to the Cape Verde Islands. What interests me is that the high seas boarding by masked men in Swedish waters. It’s not surprising, even though this is unprecedented in European waters of today, as the Swedes elected to the European parliament a representative of the Pirate Party. Now, free music downloads are not the same as free timber taking or whatever else, but it can only inspire such actions.