When I was 10-12 and the world news would talk about "Software Pirates" or "a person was arrested for pirating computer software" I thought they seriously meant the pirates from the seas and I thought that the pirates from the boat were planning to steal videotapes, software or music.
A childhood belief about criminals

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the pirates on the pirates of the caribbean ride would come to life and eat me!— Captain Jack Sparrow
- I thought there were no pirates alive today!— Sp' Iyulgar
- i used to believe that a mortgage was a big pirates chest that my mom and dad used to keep in the attic. — lou
- I used to beleive that Pirates lived on the moon because i never saw them anywhere else.Anon
- When I was 7 years old I used to believe that the Pirates with their ship they really existed — Enrico
- I thought I was the only person in the world who didn't like ice cream— Bootlebat