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People bitching about Lemmy.world blocking piracy instances sound like spoiled teenagers with no consideration of consequences
  • I’ll make sure to message you any time I’m about to comment so you can tell me if I have the credentials to have an opinion…thanks

  • People bitching about Lemmy.world blocking piracy instances sound like spoiled teenagers with no consideration of consequences
  • Ha…your name. Would be so funny if he was out here hanging with us landed gentry.

  • People bitching about Lemmy.world blocking piracy instances sound like spoiled teenagers with no consideration of consequences
  • Please do me a favor. Host an instance that has 50,000 users. Allow everything that people want to post…porn, drugs, guns and piracy. Tell me you are 100% willing to go to jail or mortgage your house to pay your legal bills if it comes to it. Tell me you sleep just fine at night and never worry, or you do worry but you’re just so so so brave you do it anyway. Tell me anyone who wouldn’t do that is a pussy. I don’t believe you would do all of this and I don’t think it’s fair to expect anyone else to if you wouldn’t.

    Just FYI, I upvoted your comment because I appreciate you expressing yourself but no one said Lemmy is a platform devoted to free speech and I disagree with everything you said.

  • People bitching about Lemmy.world blocking piracy instances sound like spoiled teenagers with no consideration of consequences
  • You basically said what I meant by this post without being an asshole like I was

    If I ran an instance and there was even a fraction of a percent of a chance I could get ruined financially by some media company whose lawyers have a slow day…I might either shut it down, turn it over to someone else, or take some possibly overly cautious steps such as…what we’re talking about. We wanted social media that isn’t controlled by corporations. We got it except uh oh that means we don’t have lawyers like Spez, Zuck, Elmo have piles of.

  • People bitching about Lemmy.world blocking piracy instances sound like spoiled teenagers with no consideration of consequences
  • 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.

  • People bitching about Lemmy.world blocking piracy instances sound like spoiled teenagers with no consideration of consequences
  • You’re probably right. I was venting. Didn’t mean to offend anyone but people were getting silly with their outrage and felt like lots was misplaced, immature, short sighted

  • People bitching about Lemmy.world blocking piracy instances sound like spoiled teenagers with no consideration of consequences
  • 100% agree. The system wasn’t designed to have a few massive instances…many, including myself, didn’t understand at first and thought Lemmy.world was… Lemmy… Much better to have dozens to hundreds of smaller ones and have a few accounts here and there. It’s probably good for people to realize no one controls the fediverse and separate themselves from the idea of even having a “home” instance for all uses. Maybe.

  • People bitching about Lemmy.world blocking piracy instances sound like spoiled teenagers with no consideration of consequences
  • I would bet $10 I’m apologizing to someone literally half my age… 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • People bitching about Lemmy.world blocking piracy instances sound like spoiled teenagers with no consideration of consequences
  • “I’m DELETING my lemmyworld account!” To me sounds teenagery because it seems like the person doesn’t understand how anything works…legally, financially, etc

  • People bitching about Lemmy.world blocking piracy instances sound like spoiled teenagers with no consideration of consequences
  • Corporate bs lol that is deluded. My whole point is that the decision was made by regular people who make zero money from this for practical reasons that are reasonable. Letting off steam just because, don’t mean to make you feel attacked but fuck you too guy. There was no need to say that.

  • People bitching about Lemmy.world blocking piracy instances sound like spoiled teenagers with no consideration of consequences
  • An LLC registered with what government…Finland? Maybe a non profit would serve this purpose but then you have to have a board and meetings. Sounds like a lot of work.

  • People bitching about Lemmy.world blocking piracy instances sound like spoiled teenagers with no consideration of consequences

    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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