i think 5 to 15 years max.

yes it is

you can yes but it is hard

yeah

very, since most online services and government agencies depend on you having an email address to contact/let you use their service.

but lemmy is a very small project compared to reddit,which has r/piracy active with no problems, and the piracy communities here don't share links for example, so it just seems like paranoia from the admins of lemmy.world.

it is sad that piracy sites get shut down often over the last few years