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.
Are they still hosting nsfw communities? Are mot those also a legal liability?
Some form (most forms?) of porn are legal in most places. Piracy isn’t legal in most places.
I’m not defending porn or saying piracy is bad, but legally I understand they don’t want to open themselves up to liability.
It’d be lovely if we could start codifying abandonware… or better yet, return copyright law to reasonable lengths (20 years)
But for a copyright pov they are even worse that piracy communities (I have nsfw turned off here, but in reddit it was full of people sharing copyrighted pictures).
That’s just in general the problem with the Internet. I’d love pics groups to be just user created pics. But unfortunately it seems like people think they can screen grab, download, or just link to any picture on the internet with no attribution or proof they have the rights to use it.
People seem to wake up when you post every picture from a comic book or manga but I wonder if someone took every photograph or painting by a famous artist and posted it. I imagine most people would highly upvotes that instead of calling it out for what it is.
Nah, user uploaded porn is a massive legal liability. Studio porn and amateur sites have procedures for verifying that performers are 18+, but that takes time and money to institute. Sometimes they do it wrong and have to wipe out entire back catalogues of content. A photo or video without documentation is not enough, since much of porn features people who look young.
Porn is lot more dangerous for the gov. Stepping in. CP is a huge issue when allowing porn.
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.
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.
But discussion about piracy isn’t. As far as I know, linking to copyrighted material on those communities is forbidden.
Shhh! You trying to wake the bear?