It’s illegal so of course they have to block it.

You can find pirated material on the web elsewhere so why is it important if it’s on Lemmy or not?

Imagine if the idiotic media starts writing about Lemmy as a pirate network or something worse.

It’s adult individuals running these servers, not companies. They would get punished in 2 seconds.

You want them to risk committing crimes for running a Lemmy instance?

If you want to downvote this, maybe you should run something illegal first in public and see how it goes.