Drop 200% of your cargo!

[Thargoid]

Yes, because pirates shouldn't have the freedom to make as much money as they want like the trader does.
The demand is unreasonable, you refuse to pay and end up dead. What do you learn from this? Bring an escort.
People come in many colours, greedy pirates are no exception.

I don't even trade any more, I mostly play pirates.

And a trader cannot make as much money as he likes, he's limited to his cargo size and ship speed, max is around 40 million last time I traded.

Piracy has never been about the money, it's just a nice bonus.

50milordai is acceptable?

Also an escort is not much use, the pirate, in most cases can take out a transport before the escort takes him out, and also trading is about making money, time is money, you double your money/hr by having two traders in convoy, rather than wasting time with escorts, obviously you'll pay more to pirates when you encounter them, but having double the income/hr more than makes up for this... big time.