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What happened to the main Piracy community (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by techgearwhips@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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It's gone. Wanted to ask over here before I went to check on Reddit.

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[–] whiskers@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Btw, that user has also requested deletion of !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com on lemm.ee and it is in consideration. If this is the reason for your switch, I'd wait for their action.

[–] sunaurus@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That user has actually not been in contact with any of our admins, I'm not sure why they are claiming otherwise.

In any case, I shared my position on piracy on lemm.ee a few months ago, and it has not changed. TL;DR discussions about piracy are fine, but explicitly facilitating piracy on lemm.ee is not allowed, and if any such content is reported on lemm.ee then I will most likely err on the side of removing it. Having said that, I am not planning to defederate lemmy.dbzer0.com at this point, as they have not been causing any issues for lemm.ee (but, of course, I do reserve the right to re-evaluate federation with any instance if at any point they start causing problems for lemm.ee).

Quoting my original comment about piracy on lemm.ee, just for full context:

There’s nothing inherently illegal about VPNs, P2P, seedboxes, torrents, software for torrents, etc - as a software engineer, I have no trouble understanding that these things all have legal purposes. There can be no realistic case made against someone just because they use (or discuss the use of) any of these things. You can post and comment about stuff like this all day long.

Also: discussing piracy topics in general (like commenting on the legality of it, just saying you do it, whatever) without actually using lemm.ee servers to host anything sketchy is fine as well.

On the other hand, telling people “go to coolpiracywebsite.com to download the latest avengers movie” is very sketchy - you’re not directly distributing anything, but I think a case can be made that this comment is directly facilitating piracy, and if someone sends me a legal letter to remove such a comment, then TBH I will most likely just comply rather than deal with the hassle of trying to figure out how legal it is. Just being frank here - I don’t want to create false expectations of lemm.ee servers being a safe haven for content with sketchy legal status.

[–] whiskers@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the reply and stating your position. I'd understand deletion if you were served a legal notice for a post/comments.

[–] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 13 points 1 year ago

Honestly, just make an account on lemmy.dbzer0.com. Can't lose access to it then.

[–] Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair. Personally I'm just sh.itjust.works as my alt instance.

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I love shit just works but the Dude has to cover his ass legally and he may be forced to do something similar if Canadian law is also bootlicking the record companies.

[–] redballooon@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Where can we learn more about that user or their request?

[–] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can browse to it via !support@lemmy.world or see the post directly https://lemmy.world/post/3175920

EDIT: Lemmy.world seems to be down right this second so you may not be able to load it, LOL.

[–] TwinTurbo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

He claimed he DMed the admins. I can't see any public post about it.

[–] techgearwhips@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I forgot the link but it's in one of my old comments in this very thread.