Humans who run instances are real people who have jobs and mortgages and kids. I also like having piracy communities around to balance the greedy ass corporations trying to control media and copyright…I’m glad to know they are there if I need them or feel like screwing around with it. I just wonder if the people ranting all indignantly acting like instances are competing for their usership would feel the same if the most active instance was on a server physically sitting in their basement, or paid for by money tied to them in the real world. Yes it seems pretty unlikely that you’re ever going to run into issues with law enforcement, copyright claims, lawsuits…but how much would you risk for a fucking hobby you do for free? Would you risk your house? Your job? I would not. Grow up. No one cares what instance you use.
But for a copyright pov they are even worse that piracy communities (I have nsfw turned off here, but in reddit it was full of people sharing copyrighted pictures).
That’s just in general the problem with the Internet. I’d love pics groups to be just user created pics. But unfortunately it seems like people think they can screen grab, download, or just link to any picture on the internet with no attribution or proof they have the rights to use it.
People seem to wake up when you post every picture from a comic book or manga but I wonder if someone took every photograph or painting by a famous artist and posted it. I imagine most people would highly upvotes that instead of calling it out for what it is.