Is it legal to write a piracy tutorial? (lemmy.cafe)

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Hi, I'm thinking about writing a media piracy tutorial for absolute beginners (think my mother - people who can use browsers and office but that's about it).

Does anybody know what's the legislation for that? I'm in the Czech Republic (EU), and the site is hosted on Codeberg pages (Germany). Nameservers for my domain are managed by CloudFlare (USA). So I'm curious about both EU and US laws.

If it's illegal, can I make it legal by not including any direct links, or stating some "educational purposes only" bullshit?

I feel like the internet is full of that stuff and even GitHub READMEs usually get away with "we don't condone piracy", but I also vaguely remember some lawsuit against redditors discussing piracy?

Thanks for advice.

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[-] stepan@lemmy.cafe 6 points 5 months ago

I looked into existing Czech court cases and it's a mess. People got sentenced just for sharing links, but also the Czech Pirate Party ran a regular pirate series streaming website with embeds and everything and won the case against them.

I could do it anonymously for sure, but I ask because I would like to post it to my website.

[-] D06M4@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 months ago

It's a very personal decision. I won't say someone's braver or stupider for coming forward in support or confession of doing something that might be interpreted as illegal today or down the road. But that person, if chased by authorities, could either become a head on a flag or a head on a pike. They could become the reason everyone pushes back or the reason everyone runs and hides.
So I'd say, under doubt start with an alias. Own it publicly when you're confident doing so will improve things for yourself and others.

[-] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ask yourself: are you ready that if push comes to shove, that your life is derailed for years by lawsuits, lawyer meetings, court orders, cops raiding your home, and financial hardship because of all this? if the answer is no, you have to make sure this is not traceable back to you. I admire your aspirations, but don't ruin your life over it.

Edit: and that is not even taking into account what might happen if you lose in court, with the very real possibility of loss of freedom and/or life-destroying fines.