• Delphia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      545·
      1 year ago

      People are missing the fundamental point of defederation. THIS IS A GOOD THING.

      You can have an absolutely squeaky clean instance for memes, news and generally huge sharing communities. Instances that dont have to worry about DCMA notices or having their servers seized and you can have instances that are willing to run those risks for niche content. If legal threats start being thrown around, the meme and hobby communities dont suffer. The piracy instances can shut down, migrate and start again, making the lawyers play whackamole.

    • kungen@feddit.nuEnglish
      66·
      1 year ago

      coerce police into taking into custody entire servers

      Name instances where this has happened, other than on entire websites dedicated to piracy. And overzealous hosting providers who shut down entire servers over a single DMCA (especially when the site doesn’t appear to host any content) should be avoided.

      But I agree that it’s his own instance and he should do what he wants with it; that’d be the beauty of federation.

        • kungen@feddit.nuEnglish
          52·
          1 year ago

          Did you miss the part “other than websites dedicated to piracy”? The kingpin was making 150k€/month from his piracy ring, not some guy running a small free message board.

        • DMmeYourNudes@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          1 year ago

          n total, 10 search warrants were issued and 14 people detained or accused of IP crimes, including four who were arrested in Spain. According to Europol, the prime suspect in this case had been earning €150,000 per month and lived in a luxury villa, drove expensive cars and took luxury holidays all over the world.

          really coerced them through legal proceedings, damn.