The Old and The New
Answer: CHARTER
Twain Byrnes, Liam Thomas

Sea Round

EYE

DAVY JONES

ROYAL

Internet Round

SOFTWARE

PUT

FORWARDING


As clued by the flavor text, we're looking for words which can make a phrase related either to sea piracy or internet piracy: for example, "bootleg/peg leg", "Bittorrent/Ocean Torrent", "high resolution/high seas". We do the same thing with our feeder answers:

Sea AnswerInternet AnswerClued WordExplanation
EYESOFTWAREPATCHPirates often wear eyepatches, and computer programs are updated via software patches.
DAVY JONESPUTLOCKERPirates refer to the bottom of the sea as Davy Jones's locker, and Putlocker is software often used for internet piracy.
ROYALFORWARDINGPORTPort Royal was a famous pirate-friendly harbor, and port forwarding is a necessary step in peer-to-peer file sharing.

Our three words are PATCH, LOCKER and PORT. We take the last 2 letters of each of these, along with an A. The only word you can make (keeping the bigrams together) is CHARTER.