brickfrog

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HD-Torrents is Open for Signups⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

Many sites also waive it for seeding torrents 24/7.

Not sure if it’s “many” but I’ll take your word for it. I double-checked the trackers I’m at and only 1 of them counts seeding as site/tracker activity. Seems pretty rare for private trackers to allow an account to exist without logging in indefinitely.

And with HD torrents it’s like once every 30 days

They have it set to 50 days.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HD-Torrents is Open for Signups⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Most private trackers require that you log into their website after x amount of time (usually it’s something like at least once every 90 days but you check the tracker’s own rules).

In fact most trackers usually don’t bother emailing you to remind you of this rule and will simply disable your account for inactivity.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did lemmy.world really defederate from the pirate instance? Totally unacceptable if so⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I had a feeling someone was going to reply with the “let’s ban things because they might be problematic in the future” reasoning. What’s interesting with your line of thinking is that there are many more communities that Lemmy.world admins should also consider banning due to possibly being a legal issue later on. In fact Lemmy.world admins haven’t even banned all piracy related/adjacent communities, they literally only considered the select few that were mentioned by the troll account.

I’d argue with this action Lemmy.world admins have actually put themselves in a more legally dubious position. They are now picking and choosing which sorts of liability to be exposed to. There is now historical precedence that the Lemmy.world admins specifically choose what to keep unblocked on their instance.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did lemmy.world really defederate from the pirate instance? Totally unacceptable if so⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
There were no legal issues or threats, it was just some troll with a brand new account from a different instance that tricked admins into blocking those communities. See the other post lemmy.world/post/3175920 (if it loads, lemmy.world having uptime issues as usual)