A pirate is a specialized in robbing ships at sea offenders. This is a rather old crime industry, since the ships, on the existence of pirates. Especially in navigation developed after sixteenth Century, as long as the business developed coastal areas, there are infested with pirates. The main characteristic of this kind of crime is the industry's, pirates many separate criminal, often by criminal groups in the form of robbery.
海盜是指專門在海上搶劫其他船只的犯罪者。這是壹門相當古老的犯罪行業，自有船只航行以來，就有海盜的存在。特別是航海發達的16世紀之後，只要是商業發達的沿海地帶，就有海盜出沒。這種犯罪行業的主要特點是，海盜者多非單獨的犯罪者，往往是以犯罪團體的形式打劫。