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.
Piracy is the second thing every social network has to make an effort to remove. The first one is child porn.
As free speech as everyone’s intentions are for the most part, you can only be in that fight so far as your pockets allow. If you believe you are legally untouchable, then go for it. But you’re probably not.
Child porn has victims
Piracy hurts nobody. It really doesnt. The music, movie and games industry have never generated as much money as they do these days.
Of course its still illegal… in most places. (Not all…)
I don’t want to take away from your point, but I read parent’s post differently. They were just stating a fact. No moral judgement being passed, no stating this one thing tied to the other.
Your point still stands, but seems a bit misplaced in this particular discussion.
I agree with you, but nobody wants to lose their house to prove it.
I’m not sure anyone is arguing that piracy is bad…not that I’m seeing anyway. Maybe some think that blocking the piracy instances is a moral stance of some kind but personally I’m verrrrrry sure it was not about ethics but about risks posed. People can say oh well its not a problem just to be talking about piracy but lemmyworld is run by a middle class guy with a few thousand $ in donations and it would be nothing for any copyright holder to ruin his life on a whim.