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Cake day: December 22nd, 2024

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  • There is no legal prohibition against asking someone for a copy of a work

    No one asked for a copy, they just took it.

    nor is there a prohibition against receiving a copy, even if that copy was illegally produced and/or illegally distributed.

    They didn’t “receive” a copy. No one dropped a hard drive off on their doorstep. They actively pursued the content and made a copy without permission for profit.

    If you want to say they did something illegal, you have to argue that they were somehow in collusion with the uploader

    Making a copy of copyrighted content without permission is illegal.

    Edit: Downvotes? In a piracy community?

    Piracy community can’t be interested in facts?




  • If you see anything…that could be improved, the best option is to make that improvement yourself.

    Are you under the impression that just everyone is a web developer?

    Besides it would be impossible to reach an agreement who this default instance should federate with or how exactly it should be moderated.

    If I may make a proposition: You can look at how Pixelfed allows certain instances that meet certain standards to opt into being listed in the app for discovery, all electronically. My recommendation would be to have 2 choices for users on sign-up:

    1. A random choice from the list of approved instances, that’s rotated periodically to prevent any particular instance from being inundated with new signups
    2. “Choose a different instance” where users can enter their preferred one manually.

    People can’t seem to make up their minds if it matters which instance you join. I really don’t think it does.