This doesn't have to do with the topic at hand, but it's just so cool being able to directly reference sites and ways to download on Lemmy, rather than dancing around the topic on Reddit.
It changed after they banned r/megalinks. I remember the day. The piracy sub purged content around that time. Then 2-3 years later the sports streaming subs went down.
It's a lot harder for copyright holders to intimidate the fediverse. First of all, there isn't a single entity that can do the policing for them. Second, fediverse servers are across the whole world, in jurisdictions other than the US.
Yeah! If there's too much attention from US companies the instances related to piracy can just move. I'm wondering what's the law for US residents who host their website in another country, do they still have to respect US laws?
Yep, it's bound to happen as the instances get larger. For example, it's why I will mention there are actually awesome leaked playable builds of Gears of War 3 on PC which are super fun to play, but I won't link directly to them.