My guess is that the "piracy" direction got killed by higher ups because we've likely already infected many of the foreign systems that we want to control. Pira

My guess is that the "piracy" direction got killed by higher ups because we've likely already infected many of the foreign systems that we want to control. Piracy would just make them look a bit too hard at their existing systems, we don't want them to look, we want them to think they are winning because we're not retaliating.