Removal of piracy communities
Removal of piracy communities
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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You are doing the right thing, assisting piracy is illegal in probably all countries. Sadly nothing but trouble would come from allowing access to those subs to continue.
Maybe there could be a legal loophole in that those subs were on a different server, but personally I wouldn't take that chance either.
Same "loophole" Google uses? Net neutrality etc. All internet traffic is equivalent?
Perhaps, but with the difference that Google makes billions on internet services, and can easily afford a lawsuit against them, which again limit the risk, because everyone knows Google can defend themselves.
Lemmy cannot.
The fediverse has no "top". This is it the strength of the fediverse showing? You are completely free to join those subs through other servers, exactly because there is no "top".
Or you can stay with an instance that tries to stay legal. If you want all the gray area stuff, you can even start your own server to facilitate that, and see how long it's allowed to stay up, and how much it will cost you in legal bills.