I think it would be very difficult to shut down a federated community and probably not worth it.
Even though these media companies do prosecute pirates on occasion, I have believe for a long time that they actually don’t have the problem with piracy their PR teams make it sound like they have.
After all, piracy drives up publicity for a show with people beyond pirates because the pirates will watch the show and, theoretically, talk about why they like it on places like Reddit or Lemmy. Which would result in increased revenue for them.
The pirates were not going to buy anyway and everyone else is going to be encouraged by the pirates talking up the show. And the companies must know that, which is why Lemmy piracy instances will be fine and why the only pirates they usually prosecute are the ones serving a huge number of files.
