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Is it legal to write a piracy tutorial? (lemmy.cafe)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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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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[–] 21 points 10 months ago (4 children)

please do not use cloudflare. it’s risking everyone’s privacy and security. they may seem like the most inconspicuous part of your dependencies, but actually are the weakest/ most dangerous part. i think codeberg tends to be supportive and the right place, but cloudflare is 99.9% gonna snitch on all of your readers.

https://www.devever.net/~hl/cloudflare

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Does this apply when I use it only for DNS? No proxy, none of their weird services, just DNS records...

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    so, whilst the other comments want through the risks of using cloudflare, i’d like to point out that hetzner DNS is free, easy to use, and a european solution. so, if you’re really not using any of the cloudflare features, its just as simple if not simpler to avoid that internet monopoly and use hetzner.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Unfortunately something like it is needed to stop bots. The reason why Lemmy isn't completely overrun by bots and spam is because the big instances run Cloudflare in the background and require a captcha to sign up.

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