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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People thought hosting copyrighted content on someone's cloud and making it available to others was a good idea? 🤦🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️

This is why we can't have nice things.

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's specifically people doing this and selling access to the servers en masse, like these servers have a hundred or more users each. The don't care about the small fish that are doing this privately for no monetary gain.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, I guess it's often profit-driven. If you can get $5 per month from 100 people, you can probably clear hundreds of dollars per month. So that ten times, and this becomes quite a serious profit stream.