lemm.ee for general use, dbzer,0 for mainly piracy (I chose this option myself)

1. You baselessly assume patents are the same as allowing copying content for personal use
2. If money is the only reason for someone to make content, then we are better off without it
3. If a company changes prices and loses customers, it is entirely their problem, not the customers’. It’s the definition of free market

Not all of Europe. In most parts (especially Eastern Europe) the most you will get is a slap on the wrist if you are really really unlucky. And decades in prison aren’t a thing anywhere for simply sharing links to pirated content.

I can host an instance. I don’t care about “raiding”. If you get raided, it means you have not properly separated your online and real identities.

You can do it totally anonymously, you just need a server with docker that can’t be linked to you. There are many ways (legal or not) to acquire such server, and afterwards it’s simple.

It is relatively light on resources, you can even host it on your own PC. And it does not need to be public, just don’t expose the port publicly and voila…

You are not reading content from lemmy.dbzer0.com unless you specifically have only that at the beginning of the address. If you have lemmy.world instead, it means you are trying to view content cached there, which no longer exists.

2. If you only care about quantity, then sure, go ahead
3. Then it’s the customers’ fault for still choosing this provider and paying more

For a living, I mostly write software and do research in mathematics, and yes it should be free. I don’t necessarily say that there should not be an option to pay for using it for business purposes, but in my opinion it should always be possible to easily and legally get it for personal use. I cannot share the code directly due to NDA’s, but it still should be public and accessible for any physical persons.

Nah, you can just write whatever makes even a tiny bit of sense. It’s just protection against bots

And an important thing I forgot to mention: you assume that piracy is some invisible force that makes customers not buy the product and inflicts purely theoretical losses to the company, while in reality the vast majority of pirates would not buy the product anyways, and some (like me) have bought hundreds of e.g. games, just because they liked the pirates version. Some studies have shown that piracy has a positive net influence on the number of sold copies. Saying that piracy loses sales is just a stupid rhetoric used by greedy callous companies to raise prices even more, though the product does not change.