I would hope not...EVER. That said most paid a ransom and it is said that they might have received up-wards of 80 million dollars just last year in ransom. Most recently the Saudis giving them 3 million and the Ukraine giving them another 3 million.

Here we took a page out of the French play book of all things...

The French government has sent in their forces to free hostage. In September 2008, France dispatched elite commandos on a night operation to free two French hostages from their captured sailboat. The 30-some soldiers, wearing night-vision goggles, boarded the ship and in about 10 minutes killed one pirate, captured six others and pulled the French Polynesian couple to safety.

The first such rescue by French troops was in April 2008. The helicopter-borne French troops swooped in on Somali pirates, capturing six of them, after the hijackers released dozens of hostages who had been held on a yacht.

I don't say this too often but Way to go France!