this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2025
-1 points (49.6% liked)

Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

62787 readers
625 users here now

⚓ Dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy, including ethical problems and legal advancements.

Rules • Full Version

1. Posts must be related to the discussion of digital piracy

2. Don't request invites, trade, sell, or self-promote

3. Don't request or link to specific pirated titles, including DMs

4. Don't submit low-quality posts, be entitled, or harass others



Loot, Pillage, & Plunder

📜 c/Piracy Wiki (Community Edition):

🏴‍☠️ Other communities

FUCK ADOBE!

Torrenting/P2P:

Gaming:


💰 Please help cover server costs.

Ko-Fi Liberapay
Ko-fi Liberapay

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

If you don't want to be pestered with the notice box to donate to the tankie dev of Lemmy, you can plop this into uBlock: Origin to block the box from appearing.

lemmy.dbzer0.com##.show.fade.alert-info.alert

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Mordikan@kbin.earth 37 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I noticed some comments saying "You can't pirate free software". I would take that as a challenge, so here's how to pirate Lemmy.

Firstly, "free" software is extremely rare. Lemmy isn't free, its governed by the AGPLv3. Per the AGPLv3, if you pull the author attribution/licensing text, say "I made this" , and start distributing it out, you've committed copyright infringement and illegally distributed it (piracy). So, that means we CAN pirate Lemmy:

  1. Fork the existing Lemmy repo into our own project
  2. Remove all reference to the original authors and licensing and put your own name on it.
  3. Change the name to something else and start sharing it out.
  4. Optionally charge money for it

NOTE: Never let someone tell you that you can't do something.

[–] zarniwoop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago

You, I like you.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 4 days ago

you mad lad lol