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People bitching about Lemmy.world blocking piracy instances sound like spoiled teenagers with no consideration of consequences (midwest.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mysoulishome@midwest.social to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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Humans who run instances are real people who have jobs and mortgages and kids. I also like having piracy communities around to balance the greedy ass corporations trying to control media and copyright…I’m glad to know they are there if I need them or feel like screwing around with it. I just wonder if the people ranting all indignantly acting like instances are competing for their usership would feel the same if the most active instance was on a server physically sitting in their basement, or paid for by money tied to them in the real world. Yes it seems pretty unlikely that you’re ever going to run into issues with law enforcement, copyright claims, lawsuits…but how much would you risk for a fucking hobby you do for free? Would you risk your house? Your job? I would not. Grow up. No one cares what instance you use.

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[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Porn is lot more dangerous for the gov. Stepping in. CP is a huge issue when allowing porn.

[–] Delphia@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

The difference is that Id immediately switch instances if I thought the mods/admins would fight the govt for even a second on handing over the IP addresses of anyone suspected of CP.

Pirate or dont pirate. I dont care, but I expect the admins to narc hard and fast on anyone posting CP. Dont even wait for the cops to knock, email them yourselves, turn the cunts straight in.

[–] Kinglink@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The word was porn. Lemmy world already federated from at least one server in regards to CP. But fear of CP isn't enough to block all porn. Piracy though is always illegal and that's why it's more strict than some titties and ass.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 1 year ago

But discussion about piracy isn't. As far as I know, linking to copyrighted material on those communities is forbidden.