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Seems quite reasonable to remove illegal communities given how Lemmy works with the caching of all content locally. There is just a significant legal risk for the instance operators involved here.
Talking about piracy on lemmy is still not illegal, in most places.
That doesn’t stop the media industry.
Sounds like the media industry is the illegal community if they enforcing their will as law when there is no such law.
They don't even need to win the case. They just need to bully the smaller person until they go bankrupt and shut down.
Only matters where the servers and instance admins are
Merely discussing piracy is not a crime. And that's all that happens in that community
It depends on the kind of discussion. Incentivizing other people to break the law is illegal in most places
Piracy is not breaking the law. Fuck capitalism!
If buying isn't owning then piracy isn't stealing.
That saying isn't trying to explain all of IP law. It's referring to products where there is no way to buy a copy you have permanent possession of. There's a reason you don't see the same fervor around pirating books.
Whether or not it's moral or ethical is separate from it being legal, and it's definitely illegal (in the US).
But it's not, they're not doing actual piracy there, they're talking about it, and that's very much not illegal
Tell that to the person I replied to, not me, because they didn't say anything about talking about piracy.
Look, I agree with the feeling behind what you are saying, However its important to remember Morality is not the same as Legality, and while they can sometimes overlap they are difrent cosepts, Piricy is moral, but not legal. If you ask me, it is A ok to do somthing that is moral but illegal
Let me know when you get your piracy instance set up, and where it is and whether I can go there and do whatever I want on it