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.

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      11 months ago

      No one will because I am not the one hosting the piracy board. How can you not understand this? Oh, right, you’re a bunch of moral police despising the fact that capitalism has failed and trying to punish those who are helping their fellow humans share what we have created. Trust me, the creators get almost jack fucking shit anyway, it’s all going to the greedy corporations that get almost all of it.

      There’s no moral justification against piracy.