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I'm new around here, so I'd appreciate some context if anyone knows...

What are the legal ramifications of discussing piracy online?
What are the lines in the sand one should not cross? What do you do to make sure you stay safe out there?

I know linking to specific pirated content is against the communities rules so that seems like an obvious no no.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

There aren't a lot of legal ramifications for simply discussing piracy online, other than attracting annoying moralistically conflicted people who're going to challenge you on the grounds of how acceptable piracy is. I would stick to piracy communities to avoid that.

Don't be an e-beggar. I wish sometimes pirates would stop catering to these people who beg and beg all of the time and not even give much of a thank you. They have a good chance of coming back and just asking for more things because they're too lazy to do the work themselves, subtracting all of the inability to do so for whatever reason.

Make your pirating patterns inconsistent on purpose, don't download massive amounts of data that will make you a blip on the radar and of course a VPN.