I haven't even seen that much, though I'm stuck in American hours. Generally, you log a pirate, you find a trader, the trader immediately cruises, you disrupt them, the trader silently starts shooting while on impulse to whatever their goto target was. Get cussed out in either Russian or a select assortment of more niche Eastern European languages, get your pirate ship and possibly every ship that people know is yours added to the enemy list, where you get hunted by 4+ people coming to "punish" you any time you log on.
The best, longest lasting fix to this is to hunt out and remove the individuals who perpetrate this mindset and behavior, but a good second is ensuring that Frigates statcheck Transports every time, and ensuring that every single unlawful has access to frigates and decent fence points for the routes that go by them. I simply have not had a bad time pirating as a Junker once I started bringing my Salvager to everything so that I can actually haul off the cargo that drops when they inevitably silent engage and I have to kill them. Bomber piracy is fairly dead, as I've experienced. Traders absolutely will refuse to pay more than 10-20K because bombers can't haul more than that, so the pirate loses every time if you refuse to pay.
The other option is always having a transport with you, and only engage in group piracy, which is impossible at 10PM where I live. There simply aren't that many people on.
When I do piracy, it's for the fun of piracy. Traders don't roleplay, and the money isn't better than trading. Eurotruck Simulator in space is horribly boring, though, so often times, despite being a bad way to make money, when I have a need of money, I'll turn to piracy anyway.
I'll do something about my superiority complex when I cease to be superior.
"Whatever happened to catchin' a good old-fashioned passionate ass-whoopin and gettin' your shoes, coat, and your hat tooken?"
