I know most of this stuff will be specialized server hardware
it actually won't be, at least not for the hard drives. the prevailing strategy for quite some time now is to just use the cheapest available disks and deal with the failures on the software level. those disks will ultimately fail anyway and the increased price for some super-duper enterprise reliability server disk is not really worth it.
We’re just trying to fill out the site with the old communities.
that part i both do understand and don't care about, my complain was about the "new communities" community being spammed with it, but it seems to be addressed already - https://lemmy.zip/post/59451177
That being said, wtf does "relinquishing digital files" even mean? They do know they still have the "originals" and there is no way to prove how many copies he made, right?
it is similar here in czechia, at least in theory, but the theory will always differ from real life.
you first have to know there is a camera to identify the problem, then if you are in doubt... i don't know, sue them to prove that camera does not capture your property?
it would take few years, because the justice system here works on geological scales. and before you would get any reasonable result, billion other cameras would pop up meantime.
the problem with these fucking things is that you can't really opt out. even if you don't buy your own, some neighbours will happily buy and install the big brother to watch you from their porch and there is very little you can do about it.
same as you can't really escape the google, even if you don't use single one of their service, there is always the other part to any communication you are having...
BUT? you don't agree with war, but you don't agree with war?