Official Statement from Lemmy.world admin about community removal
Official Statement from Lemmy.world admin about community removal
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/pira...
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Honestly, I don't blame them one bit. People need to keep in mind that these instances and sites are provided for free by private individuals and not large companies with armies of lawyers. I wouldn't want to fight a potential lawsuit for "enabling piracy", no matter how much bullshit it is. If the admins of dbzer0 have taken the necessary precautions, great! Just join their instance if that's what you're looking for.
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Pretty sure all the piracy communities I've seen have rules about not directly linking to any infringing content. Mainly its piracy discussions.
Here is a whole ass post from the admin of this instance about not directly linking: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/18438
This post is linked under the main rules of this community, Rule 3. Don't request of link to specific pirated titles.
Meaning this is a joke of a line of reasoning, you're not "protecting" anyone by limiting discussion.
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Yeah but the piracy subreddit also had those rules and various companies still sent notices to reddit. Sure they were bullshit, but copyright law puts the burden of proof on the alleged infringers not the copyright holders.
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Someone here claimed they were in the Netherlands, turns out that's not true they're hosted in Finland.
I didn't know the USA's DMCA applied to the country of Finland. Reddit still got them because they're a fucking US company based in the fucking US.
This shit is like people not understanding that The Pirate Bay didn't have to follow US laws back in the day. Infuriatingly fucking dumb.
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Ruud, the main admin, is in the Netherlands, the server is in Finland.
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Are you forgetting when the FBI still came after Pirate bay? And that the founders would have been arrested had they ever entered the US or any country with an extradition treaty?
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Lemmy.world is hosted in the Netherlands, which are notorious for going after people just for "promoting" piracy. They don't care if you're actually breaking the law, they will just make your life hard. And that's not something I'd want to deal with in addition to hosting a free service.
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No. It’s hosted in Finland. Ruud is Dutch, though.
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You're right, I must've gotten that mixed up. Still, Ruud is based in the Netherlands and I'm not sure how the hosting laws work across country borders. Strangely enough, the-federation.info lists lemmy.world as hosted in the United States...
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I asked about that a while ago and apparently it has to do with a VPN or something.
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Yeah, they use CloudFlare so it would look like that.
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Although he posted that he had to follow strict German anti piracy laws 🤷🏻♂️
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Because the company with the servers in Finland is German.
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Interesting that they wouldn't say as much themselves in any of their writings about why they made this decision.
EDIT: Turns out its not true. No Shit, Sherlock.
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Yeah, these are not company run sites with monetization plans. People saying they'll show them by leaving is funny, since these instances cost money as opposed to making money so I don't think they'll be sad about less overhead. People here aren't paying customers but guests being invited to use another person's instance over self hosting their own.
If people want uninterrupted access to this instance they can sign up to this instance, self host, or look for instances located in a country with less strict laws that might lower chances of defederation from here?
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