There's no getting around it, Plunder is romantic.
Who doesn't have a memory imprinted on the brain from childhood picture books, of treasure chests spilling with gems, gold coins and ropes of pearls? The stolen booty of fantasy is so much sexier than anything you can actually buy.

on the other hand, the reality of being the victim of a pirate attack can set you back millions of isk which is something everyone in eve, has at sometime been shown.

The privateers are a small band of friends who have decided to dedicate their time, to hunt these pirates and claim the bounties placed on their heads. no longer shall their crimes go unnoticed and unpunished, we shall fight back and once again make the warp lanes and jump gates of eve a safer place to fly