Hi, I'm thinking about writing a media piracy tutorial for absolute beginners (think my mother - people who can use browsers and office but that's about it).

Does anybody know what's the legislation for that? I'm in the Czech Republic (EU), and the site is hosted on Codeberg pages (Germany). Nameservers for my domain are managed by CloudFlare (USA). So I'm curious about both EU and US laws.

If it's illegal, can I make it legal by not including any direct links, or stating some "educational purposes only" bullshit?

I feel like the internet is full of that stuff and even GitHub READMEs usually get away with "we don't condone piracy", but I also vaguely remember some lawsuit against redditors discussing piracy?

Thanks for advice.

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[–] can_you_change_your_username@fedia.io 11 points 2 weeks ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anarchist_Cookbook

That's legal in the US so a guide to internet piracy certainly would be.

If you want to be overly cautious you can write it as a guide to using the exact same process to download media that's already passed into the public domain. Nothing illegal about downloading things that aren't protected by copyright. That the same process can be used to download pirated media is just a coincidence.

I don't know anything about relevant laws in the EU, Czech Republic, or Germany.