well priviteers are not quite pirates because their allowed by the royal navy to be floating about and they have letters of marque which are like laws that say that this ship cant be attacked and they cant attack anyother ship because they signed the laws saying they wouldnt do that... but nobody followed those laws...a lot of pirates had them and didnt follow them but they could say they couldnt be attacked if a navy ship came up cause they were priviteers not pirates...haha its ok if you dont get me today I was going off on a tanget about some movie we were watching that really ahd nothing to do with pirates but it was about slave traders and they were on a ship and I was babbling about how stuff doesnt work that way and no pirates would attack them cause what the hell would be the point of attacking a slave trader not like they have gold and I used a lot of big words I didnt know I knew and I was scaring people much like usual...haha...