I wasn't aware that it was possible to take peoples ships from them, and if it was I also didn't realise pirates were allowed to fly BS's..
Anyway what I can now see happening is there are becoming more pirates in the game than anything else, as sad as it is this is going to led to one or 2 things.
a). people will just get sick of having to pay or being killed all the time and move onto other games
b). everyone will become a pirate of one sort or another and a lot of the interaction within the community will suffer.
c). life will just go on, on the server and all will be happy,
Use Your Fears To Conquer Your Enemies, Then Watch As They Cry & Complain About How They Didn't Win!?!