Removal of piracy communities - Lemmy.world
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Earlier, after review, we blocked and removed several communities that were providing assistance to access copyrighted/pirated material, which is currently not allowed per Rule #1 of our Code of Conduct. The communities that were removed due to this decision were: - !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com [/c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com] - !piracy@lemmy.ml [/c/piracy@lemmy.ml] - !steamdeckpirates@lemmy.dbzer0.com [/c/steamdeckpirates@lemmy.dbzer0.com] We took this action to protect lemmy.world, lemmy.world’s users, and lemmy.world staff as the material posted in those communities could be problematic for us, because of potential legal issues around copyrighted material and services that provide access to or assistance in obtaining it. This decision is about liability and does not mean we are otherwise hostile to any of these communities or their users. As the Lemmyverse grows and instances get big, precautions may happen. We will keep monitoring the situation closely, and if in the future we deem it safe, we would gladly reallow these communities. The discussions that have happened in various threads on Lemmy make it very clear that removing the communites before we announced our intent to remove them is not the level of transparency the community expects, and that as stewards of this community we need to be extremely transparent before we do this again in the future as well as make sure that we get feedback around what the planned changes are, because lemmy.world is yours as much as it is ours.
  • TiritibambixEnglish
    54•11 months ago

    Absurd. None of these communities are even hosted on lemmy.world.

    lemmy.world has more downtime than France’s administration anyway,. so at least we can still sail the high seas while they’re down.

    • Hot SaucermanEnglish
      39•11 months ago

      Absurd. None of these communities are even hosted on lemmy.world.

      This is the answer, period. They aren’t hosting infringing content, they’re barely even linking to discussion of it. Most of the piracy communities here on Lemmy all have rules about not directly linking to any infringing content.

      It’s a fucking joke by people who think they’re doing something to protect their users but are actually just fucking around wasting time and energy.

        • Hot SaucermanEnglish
          10•11 months ago

          piracy communities here on Lemmy all have rules about not directly linking to any infringing content.

              • @redballooon@lemm.eeEnglish
                13•11 months ago

                Who do you think the instance admins are? These are normal people, techies who know about running a server. But without a legal department.

                They’ll not be eager to even risk a court case.

                  • @redballooon@lemm.eeEnglish
                    3•11 months ago

                    That’s totally not a point. When the admin of an instance has no interest in even getting close to something that might get them into court, it’s totally fine that they take measures.

                    Whether you like that or not is just as irrelevant as whether another admin was in court already.

    • @laylawashere44English
      2•11 months ago

      They do host a cache of any instance they are federated with and their users visit. That’s where the liability is.