thedrizzle

Each instance owner is running these instances themselves, presumably out of the home, for free.

They could go after an instance owner, sure, but

There’s no “but”. They could fight a lawsuit, sure, but that’s time consuming and expensive, and why bother? The piracy isn’t coming from their instance, why should they have to fight a lawsuit for it? Piracy has its own instance, nothing has been defederated, they’re just not hosting the content on their server to save themselves the hassle down the road. I can’t imagine they’ll be the only one.

Just because that’s the post we see doesn’t mean there isn’t more to this.

Realistically, I can see other instances doing this eventually as well.

Nah. It’s a walled garden, you should know better than to trust those by now.

There’s nothing shady here, just kneejerk and protectionist.

Beehaw defederated because they they decided they didn’t want to actually moderate their communities. Easier to just screen everyone before letting them join, to weed out people they may potentially disagree with. Ostensibly to filter out hate but only a fool thinks it stops there.

With Sonarr/Radarr and Jellyfin, that convenience has effectively been trumped. I don’t know how they can compete

Wow that’s old.

Frankly, as shitty is a lot of that stuff was, DVDs were like the last form of media distribution that I would actually call tolerable in terms of consumer friendliness. You still got a physical disk with the actual movie that was easy to rip and share, no internet required. If it weren’t for the quality limitations, I’d still collect them as the primary physical backup to my media server.