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Convo about piracy with my friend
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
(i’m also gonna ambush my friends about Signal on sunday and coerce them to download it to get rid of the green bubbles)
Exactly.
Piracy was "tolerated", because it stole money from competitors.
Even if a pirate lied and only turned over some of the booty to the crown, it still took it from their enemies.
There were also those pirates that were told "alright we don't need you anymore. Don't pirate." And went "well if the agreement is over, I guess we can pirate your ships too!"