Question about the 'Warn before kill' piracy rule

[Fletcher]

All right, as far as I am aware, if a pirate tells me "Stop/halt/cut engines" as a warning, and you refuse to stop, I can understand that pirates are 'allowed' to tear into them. This I understand and fear.

Now I want to know is there a sort of time limit from the first warning before you open fire? 10 seconds? It is usually down to the individual I think.

Whether you call this a complaint or a honest question is up to you, but here is what happened to me.

I just came through the Frankfurt Jumphole and arrived in Sigma-13, I was exploring the systems, I headed for New Berlin Jumphole. Then soon after in cruise my radar showed a player ship, a corsair ship. I literally thought "Oh bugger this can only go well". I won't say the name but I will tell if you ask me.
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He tells me "edison hold :=)^" as I saw this, about half a second for me to react I hit the cruise engine button to deactivate. Almost instantly as I press and no joke, I was space dust. He blew me up within 0.5 seconds of the warning.

While I understand if he asked for money and I refused to pay after warngin he blew me up, I have no quarrel with that, part of trading. But blowing me up straight after a warning? Isn't this exploiting the warn then shoot rule?
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After that I expressed my annoyance to him and I quote from the chat from what I screen shotted:
*after respawn*
Me - I did hit the stop button, very fair
Corsair - Sorry
Corsair - Trigger happy ship
Me - But you killed me with little time to react to warning
Corsair - How is that wrong?
Me - Because I hit the stop button and you took half a second after the 'warning' to fire
Me - You had no intention of letting me live
Corsair - of course i did i wonted to tax you:)
Corsair - now i get nothing:(
Me - Some tax strategy

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I understand there are pirates that tax, I know that if I don't stop after first warn I am open season I know this and as some pirates know I leg it while dumping CM's and I am a legal rp wise target. But in this case I was attacked immediately after the warning, giving me no time to react, stop or even alter course.

I think this is a grey area in the rule that needs to be clarified, since it can be and I think has been exploited.

Feedback?:unsure:

EDIT: At the time I had no cargo just in case that is going through your mind as justification, all he could loot was my 70 Imp. countermeasures.

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