Is it legal to write a piracy tutorial? (lemmy.cafe)

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Hi, I'm thinking about writing a media piracy tutorial for absolute beginners (think my mother - people who can use browsers and office but that's about it).

Does anybody know what's the legislation for that? I'm in the Czech Republic (EU), and the site is hosted on Codeberg pages (Germany). Nameservers for my domain are managed by CloudFlare (USA). So I'm curious about both EU and US laws.

If it's illegal, can I make it legal by not including any direct links, or stating some "educational purposes only" bullshit?

I feel like the internet is full of that stuff and even GitHub READMEs usually get away with "we don't condone piracy", but I also vaguely remember some lawsuit against redditors discussing piracy?

Thanks for advice.

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[-] klu9@piefed.social 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Every homepage for a BitTorrent client shows using it to download a Linux .iso (GPL) or the short film Big Buck Bunny (Creative Commons).

Maybe make the examples in your guide legal but the steps can be the same as for illegal, e.g. "Here's how you can use The Pirate Bay & QBittorrent to find & download Big.Buck.Bunny.1080p.mp4".

Then, when they follow the steps in your guide, they can change Big Buck Bunny to whatever they want to download.

[-] stepan@lemmy.cafe 5 points 8 months ago

That sounds like the best way to do it. I can link to the piracy websites so people can find old niche movies with copyright expired or something.

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