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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[-] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 9 points 5 months ago

During US prohibition, there were "grape bricks" with warnings not to dissolve in water and place in a cupboard for 20 days, because then it would turn into wine.

A simple negation probably won't cut it legally (the bricks had a significant legal purpose), but you could probably word it in a similar way. For instance, "While VPNs are effective at anonymizing yourself during piracy, they can also protect your privacy from data mining ad companies".

At some point, you'll have to conspicuously avoid the topic and let people infer. Remember when high-speed connections were advertised as being great to "download movie trailers"?