Given that most pirate stations aren't monetized anyway, they don't care if people listen or not. Like with most hobbies, people do it for the process, not the

Given that most pirate stations aren't monetized anyway, they don't care if people listen or not. Like with most hobbies, people do it for the process, not the outcome. These are anoraks having fun, trying to build better masts, better transmitters, and just pushing their own skills forward, even if the information isn't necessarily useful for anything else. Growing up in Liverpool, I've got a lot of appreciation for countercultural pirate stations ala Radio Caroline. Nobody has to listen, they just need to have fun doing it to make it worthwhile.