Since we are all pirates moving away from Lemmy
Did I miss something?
Probably meant migrating from reddit.
I missed it too
But idk what the reality of having a community like that would be
Interesting question since there's no precedent.
If a copyright troll were to go after links on the Fediverse, what would they do. I guess they'd have to target the owner of the instance that hosts the community. If you set up an instance on a VPS that doesn't care, like those that offer seedboxes and debrid services I guess they'd just get ignored. I suppose they could go after other instances and force them to block the offending instance, I don't know.
To set up a community like that, probably best on its own instance using a copyright resistant VPS. Would keep it insulated. It could get blocked by other instances, but should be possible to create local a sign-in for direct access.
I think this is the best approach. We don't want direct download links here (see rule 3) for exactly this reason. We want to be able to serve as a pirate community in the long term without having to play whack-a-mole with hosting providers and domain names every few months, to say nothing of the legal risk. But I would expect we would be able to add such an instance to the Megathread if the mod team liked the idea, so it's at arms length from this instance. 👍
MEGA itself does respond to valid DMCA notices; just as an FYI. I don't consider MEGA to be all that copyright resistant.
However; it's likely to be usable if long lived links were zippped using a specific password to encrypt. It's either that and/or links be ephemerally generated for a week at a time for requests.
We don’t want direct download links here (see rule 3)
What if all the links were encoded?
I would imagine this instance is hosted in one of the countries that doesn't respond to copyright bullshit. Even so, the links can be shared in base64
Pretty sure I saw a thing from the instance admin that a sufficiently anonymous host costs about 3x as much as whatever he was using, and would need more donations prior.
I think it should theoretically be easier to do it here. Ideal case, setup a separate instance for similar communities, or even just this one community. Then if there are any issues, take down that instance and set it up on a difference instance. It might get defederated, but you will still be able to do everything within your instance.
It might be nice to have. If precautions are taken; it could even be a viable community. I certainly wouldn't mind a place where I could search for newish files or make requests for specific older ones.
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