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Mildly Infuriating

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/2881638

The largest piracy community is hosted over at !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

lemmy.world has blocked it. It appears to have also blocked !piracy@lemmy.ml.

If this is a problem for you, I'd suggest migrating accounts using LASIM to an instance that doesn't block it (such as lemm.ee).

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An official announcement has been made:

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[–] leraje@lemmy.world 559 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Might be worth remembering here that Lemmy instances, including .world are hosted by regular people. Not massive multinational companies worth billions who can engage the best legal talent around.

If Hollywood comes after a Lemmy instance, Holywood have a huge legal team and endless money. The Lemmy instance has some guy. They could quite literally destroy a persons life. With that in mind, I don't blame any instance owners for erring on the side of taking a stance that won't put them in the legal firing line.

[–] Kalkaline@programming.dev 147 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed, all these people complaining probably aren't running their own instances.

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's be nice if there'd been some discussion first, and perhaps a solution other than an admin vanishing a community without notice. Even just some text informing the user "You can't see this content on lemmy.world. Please go to the instance directly".

Regardless if the decision is understandable, the method used here is not going to sit well with people. After how many years of spez, these kinds of behind the scenes snap decisions that change the site overnight with no apparent regard for the community is going to leave a bad taste in people's mouths. It wouldn't have hurt to bring it to the community rather than just shadow banning without a word.

Not even because there needed to be a discussion, but just as a basic courtesy.

It doesn't inspire confidence or endear the instance to its users.

[–] teolan@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Even just some text informing the user “You can’t see this content on lemmy.world. Please go to the instance directly"

That would have to be supported by Lemmy, which I believe is currently not the case.

[–] TheBeanDream@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You’re welcome to go to a different instance. That’s the entire point of lemmy. If you don’t like how an instance is ran you can go somewhere else.

[–] RadButNotAChad@lemmy.world 76 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a well reasoned answer. If this were my instance I would also ban communities linking to pirated software. A single lawsuit and lawyer bill for a regular guy, and that can fuck your life up all because you tried to run a decent community. I have a username I use for browsing lemmynsfw, I'll make one for browsing piracy related things too.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Best bet I think is to set up a non-profit limited liability type of company. Then at least there is a good chance the individual doesn't get fucked. (Ymmv depending on legal jurisdiction of course)

[–] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

You still need expensive lawyers to defend yourself. Registering a LLC isn't a get out of jail free card and corporations don't shield you from personal criminal liability (unless you're rich, see comment about expensive lawyers).

[–] traveler@lemdro.id 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly, he’s protecting himself.

[–] CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Protecting himself from what? The community hosts literally zero pirated content.

[–] traveler@lemdro.id 3 points 1 year ago

But it links to it, which is equally as bad. In your logic thepiratebay would never have any problems with law enforcement because they technically don't host any of the pirated content, just link to it.

[–] didntwemeetin2007@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’m confused, Are they actually hosting anything illegal?

[–] SRo@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago

No. .world is just afraid of everything. Better they shut down their instance.

[–] leraje@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Not sa far as I know.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

No, but that hasn't stopped IP holders from bad faith litigations in the past.

[–] Durotar@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Why would Hollywood come after them? It is not like people are sharing movies there. Posts there are etremely mild.

[–] Oinks@feddit.de 90 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sony Music is currently coming after DNS provider Quad9 for resolving a piracy related domain, and they've succeeded in two courts so far. At this point I don't think any copyright lawsuit is too stupid to happen.

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh man I had forgotten about that thing, it'd be so awful if they end up never winning the case, I really like what Quad9 does and stands for

[–] leraje@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

I'm not saying they are or aren't. I'm simply saying that we all know the big media companies go after people at the drop of a hat. They recently tried to get reddit to expose the identities of people discussing piracy over there. To their credit reddit told them no and defended themselves legally. And that's the issue. The media companies can accuse anyone of anything if it even slightly smells like piracy and the target has to legally defend themselves. This is fine if you're a multibillion valued company. Not so fine if you're just some guy who just wanted to run a Lemmy instance out of his own pocket.

[–] FinallyDebunked@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

lemmy.world is hosted in Finland hence they don't probably live in us

[–] moitoi@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

For me, it looks like people are mad at the US defaultism of the decision.

I understand why. It makes for part of the users no sense as they are protected by the law. It looks like a US "shitshow". Countries are protecting the IP of the person, making it nearly impossible to pursue someone. Others have law allowing the use and the copy of copyrighted material for educational purposes. Some allow the download of copyrighted material.

It's the same with GDPR. Meta must comply. There is no exception because US defaultism.

And we can understand this point of view too. It's not binary as the US people think it is. It's more mixed depending of the country.


Generally, outside of this drama, on the internet, people are reclaiming they right and don't want the US "example" anymore. They want the internet following their local laws like the GDPR for Europeans. They have the right to claim it. Thanks to GDPR, mandatory usb-c, battery replacement and others laws in Europe and outside, the consciences of are awakened that the US is not the model to follow in terms of law on the internet and technologies.