• Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOP
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    9 months ago

    The admins and mods of that instance are 100% going to prison or getting heavily fined. Stay away or at least access it via Tor.

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      9 months ago

      The admins and mods of that instance are 100% going to prison or getting heavily fined.

      And why would that be?

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          9 months ago

          Oh no I know you didn’t mean me, no worries. I was just curious. I’ve heard this said but I’ve also heard this said for months. Things going well so far.

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            9 months ago

            What I predict is that it will slowly grow and then at some point it will get shutdown. It might be 6 months or it might be 6 years. Its hard to say.

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              9 months ago

              r/piracy still survives to this day, so I very very highly doubt that. The police don’t care about people consuming pirated media or discussing it, they want to catch the people making the cracks

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                9 months ago

                Reddit has a dedicated legal team. Do you? Its just a matter of time before it gets shutdown.

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                  I think it would be very difficult to shut down a federated community and probably not worth it.

                  Even though these media companies do prosecute pirates on occasion, I have believe for a long time that they actually don’t have the problem with piracy their PR teams make it sound like they have.

                  After all, piracy drives up publicity for a show with people beyond pirates because the pirates will watch the show and, theoretically, talk about why they like it on places like Reddit or Lemmy. Which would result in increased revenue for them.

                  The pirates were not going to buy anyway and everyone else is going to be encouraged by the pirates talking up the show. And the companies must know that, which is why Lemmy piracy instances will be fine and why the only pirates they usually prosecute are the ones serving a huge number of files.