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https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy?tab=readme-ov-file#easy-way

It’s fairly literally just a download-and-run kind of deal it seems. Does seem pretty trivial.

If I understand correctly they already can. It’s not user-facing, but votes are federated if I understand correctly.

Music locker services are frequenly targeted and taken down, as GlitterInfection mentioned. There’s multiple cases on the Wikipedia page.

There is a jump between hosting and sharing, but that jump is very small. Share it with 1 other person, and you have made unauthorised copies of the licensed material, and are therefore acting against the law. That’s not FUD, that’s been reality for the past few decades.

Whether or not the illegal sharing of licensed material is done via a generic website, a federated service of even carrier pidgeon doesn’t matter, an unlicensed copy is an illegal copy. Rightsholders have pleny of avenues to force a takedown against specific instances. And if they can successfully argue that the primary purpose of this software is piracy, they may even have enough legal arguments to force a takedown of the sourcecode.

Of course, the main question is whether rightsholders will bother with this as long as it remains small-scale. Legal costs would likely outweigh the missed income. But that doesn’t actually shield you from legal liability.

They would be able to sue the webhost in order to retrieve basically all the data if they have strong and reasonable suspicions that the website is hosting copyrighted material.

This really isn’t as foolproof in legal terms unfortunately. With torrent websites there’s still some ambiguity as the website doesn’t host the copyrighted material, just the torrent files. But here the website itself is liable, painting a massive legal target on their backs.

ISPs can be compelled to share name/address information of anyone involved in publishing licensed material through the courts. Then they’ll summon you to stop or pay a fairly hefty fine.

At least in the Netherlands this would still constitute unauthorised copying of licensed material, and therefore be illegal.

On most keyboards the 6 is physically closer to the F key than it is to the J key, making it closer to the resting position of the left index finger.

If you search online though it seems to be a bit 50/50 which finger you were taught to use though.

Trump made the decision to pull out, Biden didn’t stop what had already been set in motion.

If the US hadn’t pulled out, the Taliban wouldn’t be in charge. So Trump killed it.

Indirectly doing things allows anyone to take the blame!