You can try void. It is something between arch and traditional distros.

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Agree, but breaking the law and putting your whole operation at risk is not a clever nor productive way to fight it.

I agree that the laws are bad. However, they are still laws. Breaking them has consequences.

If the library does not have the license or a right, guaranteed by law, to do that, then it is piracy.

The law is a law. Their aims do not override it. They are getting what any sane person would expect. Nothing prevented them from separating their legal and shady operations to separate entities. That, at least, would prevent compromising the whole operation. If someone puts his head in a lion mouth, it is still his fault, at least partially, that lion kills him.

It’s not like they’re distributing the latest Marvel slop.

I doubt this argument will hold in court.

My point still stands.

The developer is registered in Latvia. Yes, it had at one point connection to Russia, so what? A lot of software was developed in Russia. Nginx, for example, that does not prevent millions of websites from using it.

Users leaving OnlyOffice is mostly about enterprise edition (paid) users. In fact, many of them left enterprise version for the Foss version.

Can Internet Archive just stop copyright violations?

Do not get me wrong, I am all for piracy, but usually pirate websites hide themself (like libgen, for example), so that no lawsuit possesses a threat to the resource itself or resource owners.

IA, on the other hand, are pretentious pirates. They either believe that they are untouchable or just do not care in general. And when it causes expected result once again, they start running around asking for help and telling how dangerous it is for their entire work.

The comment above is wrong. OnlyOffice is available under both Foss (Community Edition) and proprietary (Enterprise Edition) licenses. The proprietary version is paid and offers some additional features like extended support.

OnlyOffice is open source and Latvia based.