| Privateers are awesome.
Basically, they hold a massive amount of active wardecs - having a wardec active against a corporation or alliance allows you to attack members of those corporations / alliances in empire without CONCORD interfering.
In practice, means people have to use npc corp alts (who can't be wardecced) to do their logistics in empire, which is quite a nuisance.
Don't listen to what people say - it's quite a shame losing mllions to them but people do and do it often. They just will never accept it publically =D | 