• kungen@feddit.nuEnglish
    76·
    1 year ago

    coerce police into taking into custody entire servers

    Name instances where this has happened, other than on entire websites dedicated to piracy. And overzealous hosting providers who shut down entire servers over a single DMCA (especially when the site doesn’t appear to host any content) should be avoided.

    But I agree that it’s his own instance and he should do what he wants with it; that’d be the beauty of federation.

      • DMmeYourNudes@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        1 year ago

        n total, 10 search warrants were issued and 14 people detained or accused of IP crimes, including four who were arrested in Spain. According to Europol, the prime suspect in this case had been earning €150,000 per month and lived in a luxury villa, drove expensive cars and took luxury holidays all over the world.

        really coerced them through legal proceedings, damn.

      • kungen@feddit.nuEnglish
        62·
        1 year ago

        Did you miss the part “other than websites dedicated to piracy”? The kingpin was making 150k€/month from his piracy ring, not some guy running a small free message board.