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Survivability of an r/Megalinks community on Lemmy
(lemmy.world)
1. Posts must be related to the discussion of digital piracy
2. Don't request invites, trade, sell, or self-promote
3. Don't request or link to specific pirated titles, including DMs
4. Don't submit low-quality posts, be entitled, or harass others
We heartily recommend visiting the free port of freemediaheckyeah (aka FMHY) while you sail the high seas, for all the freshest links the ocean has to offer.
📜 c/Piracy Wiki (Community Edition):
FUCK ADOBE!
Torrenting/P2P:
Gaming:
💰 Please help cover server costs.
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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.
What if all the links were encoded?