- cross-posted to:
- piracy@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- piracy@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/2881638
The largest piracy community is hosted over at !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
lemmy.world has blocked it. It appears to have also blocked !piracy@lemmy.ml.
If this is a problem for you, I’d suggest migrating accounts using LASIM to an instance that doesn’t block it (such as lemm.ee).
edit:
An official announcement has been made:
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Unless the users themselves are directly posting links to the content and hosting it (the pirated content) on lemmy, no instance would be held liable. Anyone defending this has no idea what the fuck they are talking about.
That’s a bit naive, knowing what we know about the sharks that run the large media corporations. For your average instance owner, it’s not a question of being found not liable, it’s the fact that you as an ordinary guy with an ordinary life and an ordinary income suddenly have to defend yourself legally with all the exposure and expense that entails, from day one.
You mean the cases that are almost always thrown out in court? You mean the cases where said sharks have to pay the defendant?
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I don’t know about you but engaging a lawyer and going to court to defend myself would be a massive financial drain. And to risk that on simply the hope that a court might find in my favour is far too big of a risk. Then add on all the unwanted public exposure, the internet notoriety etc. Fuck that.
Are google liable for literally giving search results to people with step by step guides to pirating?
Are Amazon liable for all the people using their VMs as seed boxes?
It’s about the fear that you might be liable because you don’t know. If they were actually liable you wouldn’t find any discussion on piracy or anything else illegal on the internet.
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Google exists to help you find what you want. Piracy is one of those things that it helps you find how to do.
The community exists to talk about piracy, not to explicitly tell you how to do it.