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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:

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.

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[–] TurboLag@lemmings.world 289 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And on top of this, the removals were done following the request from a troll account, by a user involved in far more questionable discussions than the legal discussions currently going on in the now-removed communities. Should no attempt be made to differentiate between a legit legal concern and trolling?

[–] OverfedRaccoon@lemm.ee 145 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Good ol' Bungiefan_ak, creating troll accounts on any instance that'll have them to troll all things piracy and post transphobic and hateful shit wherever they go.

[–] brad@toad.work 85 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TurboLag@lemmings.world 48 points 1 year ago

They only do it because it works. Had they been given the level of attention—and interaction—that trolls deserve, they would quickly move on to doing other things with their life. But as long as one single well-placed comment can result in so many people getting annoyed from so many different perspectives, it's easy to see the appeal that these trolls see...

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

What is it about Destiny that attracts pieces of shit?

[–] stown@sedd.it 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you post to a community that isn't local, the content of the post is stored on your local server and the remote server just makes a copy. The posters home server is where the illegal content is hosted.

[–] silentdon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yes, so illegal content will end up being stored on both servers. The thing is that the piracy communities don't allow illegal content to be stored or linked to for the same liability reasons.

[–] obosob@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Any specific infringement material (by which I mean media) would only be on the user's home server. Links to content aren't what is actionable for a DMCA notice as far as I'm aware. And the DMCA does not require platforms to actively monitor or remove potentially infringing content, only to follow the takedown procedure when sent an appropriate notification. If they follow that then they are protected from liability. That's US law but IIRC the implementations in most of the rest of the world are similar if not the same. And here's the rub: even without those communities, LW will still need to have a DMCA agent and take action against content when notified because people can and will upload infringing media here on other communities.

They're not exposing themselves to additional risk by having the piracy communities unblocked. People can and will discuss piracy, in abstract terms at the very least, all over the place. And discussion of copyright infringement is not copyright infringement anyway. Any liability and risk they do hold they will still have to worry about now regardless.

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

Which has me wondering why these moves make sense at all. So many people are jumping to the defense of a knee-jerk reaction to a 10h old troll account. Why was that the admins' solution to a random post from a new account? Plus, pirate communities shared vast amounts of information and a lot of it is not directly related to piracy itself.

[–] theyawner@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's an elephant in the room. It's an unavoidable topic that will eventually need to be addressed at some point.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its literally not. Piracy topics are all over the web.

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

Others have already pointed it out, but Reddit had to fight a subpoena to reveal users who discussed piracy on their site in 2011 and 2018. And just because everyone else is doing it is not a good argument to justify why this instance should expose themselves to an unnecessary risk.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

So that tells me there is precedent for privacy?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 6 months ago

Can you even upload things other than images to a Lemmy instance? I don't see the point in worrying about illegal files being shared on the system if the system doesn't support that kind of file sharing in the first place.

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

First of all so far as I know lemmy doesn't actually host anything. A post which links to the actual host probably isn't illegal most places.