I’m asking this out of curiosity; I don’t need to host anything that can’t already be done in the West

Lots of countries have very relaxed or non-existent enforcement of torrent filesharing. That’s not what I’m asking.

I’m asking about what place one could openly host every known commercial pop song and every Hollywood film without any worry about being shutdown or sued.

For a reference, according to a one-minute check of Wikipedia, the only countries which haven’t ratified the Berne Convention or the TRIPS Agreement in any way are Eritrea, Kosovo, Palau and Palestine. While joining these agreements doesn’t imply they’re enforced, it gives an idea of how widely governments do agree to intellectual property rights.

how much would it cost to launch an independent server into orbit?

  • calm.like.a.bomb@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Romania, because although we have been “forced” by the EU to have copyright laws, the authorities don’t give a fuck. I’ve been pirating without any issue for the last 25 years.

  • potatoguy@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    I think Russia, because of the sanctions. What I’ve heard is that they stopped caring about piracy, there’s piracy even on their social media, like VK, out in the open.

    If it was relaxed before, now it feels like it’s legalized in there.

    Edit: found a source for this

    • comfy@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      Good example, with the caveat that one would still be subject to the intellectual property rights of Russians, and I’d assume of their allies, right? (I know I used Hollywood in my example, that’s on me)

      Thanks for adding the source.

  • Randomgal@lemmy.caEnglish
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    5 days ago

    A lot of people in this thread are equating consuming pirates material with distribution. This is not the same.

    Sony has nothing to gain from going after you Joe Schmoe who plays illegal mp3s or cracked games. The reason they don’t have a lawsuit is not that Colombia doesn’t care, it’s that the company would have nothing to gain from enforcing the law and spending the resource required to bring charges against you, this is true in the US too. You might get a letter and your ISP might throw a fit if you torrent, by no rightsholder is going to spend money in court because you didn’t pay to play.

    The moment you start distributing pirated material, the interest of the company changes, now they care about you harming their IP, reducing their profits, etc. Now you are at risk of a lawsuit.

    Being in fucking Argentina on whatever won’t make a difference, if Sony wants to drag your ass to court, they will, in whatever country you are.

  • Danitos@reddthat.comEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I would say Colombia, and probably most of Latin America. You can safely pirate multimedia content, or even physical counterfeit stuff.

    I used to spend a lot of time in a huge comercial neighborhood in Bogotá where you can buy jailbroken consoles, pirated movies/games/anything, counterfeit anything, and there were some cops presence, but they literally couldn’t care less, and they’ll buy stuff as well. Maybe once a year there were raids, but it was against tax-evasion.

    If this is the case in the capital, in the rest of the country the situation is even more careless.