this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2026
96 points (99.0% liked)

Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

67393 readers
461 users here now

⚓ Dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy, including ethical problems and legal advancements.

Rules • Full Version

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



Loot, Pillage, & Plunder

📜 c/Piracy Wiki (Community Edition):

🏴‍☠️ Other communities

FUCK ADOBE!

Torrenting/P2P:

Gaming:


💰 Please help cover server costs.

Ko-Fi Liberapay
Ko-fi Liberapay

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
top 18 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 45 minutes ago

When million dollar AI companies pirate everything in the world

Silence

When one single person pirates something

Jail time

[–] gegil@sopuli.xyz 31 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Copyright laws are stupid. Copyright should expire the same way patents expire, after 10 years.

[–] skribe@piefed.social 1 points 3 minutes ago* (last edited 2 minutes ago)

That would just further disenfranchise creators, most of whom don't make much (if any) money. Why would corporations fork out money for rights to stories/scripts/music when they can wait 10 years and get it for free? We have enough issues currently with corps stealing our IP to train their AIs, and then regurgitate almost exact copies to directly compete against us.

[–] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Copyright should not exist. You cant fence ideas. This bs only serves capitalists

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I think some form needs to exist, even under communism; or else how would you earn for your labor without someone else taking your work and exploiting it?

I agree it should be like 10 years though, and infringement shouldn’t be some wild number, takedowns 100% should not be “shoot first ask questions later”, etc

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

Noo no, if ppl dont retire off working once, how will you sell ppl the fantasy of easy retirement off one lucky opportunity

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

You cant fence ideas.

Yeah, you can't fence ideas using copyright, that's what patents are for.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 25 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Don't get too surprised. Look what happens in Italy or Spain with soccer. Same idiot stuff that only targets the less tech-savvy. 

This will only improve the sailing abilities of those who love the high seas.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I don't use Discord and that's the only other place these scanlation groups use outside of their sites. If the sites go down, it will legitimately be hard to access the content.

[–] TWeaK@lemmy.today 5 points 4 hours ago

If it's similar to the football streaming then primarily they'll be targeting those selling pirated material.

[–] Skaudottir@piefed.social 9 points 4 hours ago

You need a Google, Apple or Facebook account to sign up for Manta. Even if you want to pay, it'll cost you more than money.

[–] Fokeu@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I'm not reading their shit anyways but I have a feeling that this might backfire soon.

Fuuuck copyright.

[–] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

And people wonder why their birthrate is plummeting

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 hour ago

I think that's more because they work themselves to death, not because they're not allowed to pirate manhwa.

[–] Throbbing_banjo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)
[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I copied this from piracy subreddit didn't notice the type. I changed it to a better title.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 5 points 5 hours ago

it's obviously a typo of 'their' lol