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.
  • Hot Saucerman@lemmy.mlEnglish
    315·
    1 year 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 Saucerman@lemmy.mlEnglish
        81·
        1 year ago

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

            • redballooon@lemm.eeEnglish
              82·
              1 year 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.

              • CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.orgEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                That’s not what was said. There’s never been a legal trial of the fediverse.

                Any other court case regarding IP is irrelevant.

                There’s no precedent for activitypub, and that’s the point.