[sammyg2]

There is only one way to deal with pirates and kidnappers:
Do not under any circumstances pay any ransom ever no matter what, and kill the bastages.

Once these pieces of dung realize that they won't get any money and they will get killed, they will stop piracy completely. nothing else will stop it.
A few ships will be lost, a few crews will be lost, but that is the only way to stop this fiasco once and for all.
Unfortunately scarcely few men in this world will have the appendages to step up and make that happen.