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Removal of piracy communities (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lwadmin@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@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:

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

I’ve never seen anyone post or comment a link to a pirated file.

You ignored the "assistance in obtaining it" part, because members of !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com have been doing that. Also:

EDIT: oh boy, shill posts a lie, innocent pirate mob upvotes. I literally post a proof that what he said is completely false, innocent pirate mob downvotes.

[–] spiderman@ani.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The above comment says "I’ve never seen anyone post or comment a link to a pirated file."

proceeds to post a screenshot where they just name the site and not the particular content.

[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I’ve never even seen anyone link to a website

you missed this part, you're all trying too hard here

[–] spiderman@ani.social 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think some of you have no idea how legal issues will occur. Unless you are linking actual content or the (direct) link to the copyright infringing content, you will not be having any legal issues. That's why big piracy discussion subreddits in reddit ike r/piracy are not taken down yet.

Even YouTube has copyright infringing content. Now will .world get any legal notice for linking that? No. Will .world get a legal notice for having comments or posts having a direct YouTube link to the copyright infringing content? Yes. That's how things work.

Hope you guys understand that instead of slamming every reasonable comment.

Linking this comment by @zikk_transport2@lemmy.world for better understanding

discussions are legal, guides are legal, tips are legal, but actual files (aka "copyrighted content") is illegal. There are no files shared there, links at maximum, but institutions should be after those content-sharing websites, not forums.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Are you trying to say I'm a shill? Lol wat.
I chimed in with my experience. You chimed in with one example expecting it to be the end all of the discussion.

If you really want to talk about who does what, look at yourself asking for links to alternate apps for online services so you don't have to pay for them. Someone's been asking for assistance in obtaining things alright.