1711 in piracy

See also: 1710 in piracy, other events of 1711, 1712 in piracy and the list of 'years of Piracy'.

Events

Europe

October 14 - Woodes Rogers returns to England after a successful round-the-world privateering cruise against Spain, carrying loot worth ₤150,000. Broils with the Admiralty courts delay distribution of the treasure.

Deaths

gollark: The question is whether your software will actually attract any malicious people.

gollark: Wait, some cryptographers came up with "indistinguishability obfuscation" a while ago, maybe that will turn into something useful for apious copy protection schemes in a few decades.

gollark: Until someone comes up with working homomorphic encryption.

gollark: It's inevitably doomed to failure if anyone actually cares enough, but who knows if they will.

gollark: But yes, I agree utterly, most copy protection stuff bad, I would go for at most having asymmetric-cryptography-verified license keyoids.

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