• marmo7ade@lemmy.worldEnglish
    64·
    1 year ago

    There is absolutely something illegal about copyright infringement. “It depends”, and there is content that is legal. But there is a lot that is illegal. Legality depends on the location of the user.

    If I’m an American and I pirate a movie made by Warner brother’s, that illegal.

    I know, I know. There’s a million reasons everyone feels entitled to break their local laws. That doesn’t change reality. Tell it to a lawyer and them have them convince the admins it’s a great idea.

    • Gamey@feddit.rocksEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      Absolutely but teaching others to pirate isn’t, it’s illegal for a platform to host copyrighted content and it’s illegal to host direct links to contents, NOT links to sites that host links to content or even the content itself…

    • Reliant1087@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      1 year ago

      That’s not what the poster is talking about. Whether the piracy subreddit or the lemmy community, there are strict rules about sharing copyrighted content, asking for it or posting links to it. These communities are about discussing different technologies around BitTorrent, usenet or debrid and how to leverage them to share content.

      All of the above can be used for perfectly legal reasons such as sharing Linux ISOs or public domain media.

      If you use those to pirate copyrighted content that’s your decision.

      Calling these communities illegal and blocking them is akin to schools not permitting students to use backpacks or lockers because they could be used to hide guns.