Remember when they found out the dudes behind piratebay were like 3-5 hacktivist friends who made it in their free time lol?
Also what illegal subscriptions. Do they really think people pirate content for it to be sold and not shared?
make a decentralized system that scales quickly and efficiently with usage and has a higher uptime than any server based site like reddit
It is like the holy grail of a decentral web, and it is (currently) very hard to achieve without making a tradeoff.
Lemmy trades off scalability and availability for federation. It’s not very effective because instances have to be selected manually, and if any large instance goes down, chaos ensues.
It’s not even truly decentral. More like a somewhat redundant media system.
The best I think we have right now is IPFS. It has scalability and accessibility. But it lacks speed due to DHT searches being hella slow compared to a simple DNS lookup.
Not for every average Hollywood movie ever.
There’s so many acronyms for the source because of how many people independently rip, not even including cam rips.
Now if it’s some big gun software like cobalt strike, then sure yeah people definitely charge.
But Movie and TV pirating is so easy, people regularly make their own rips and torrents.