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Official Statement from Lemmy.world admin about community removal
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this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2023
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This community and other Lemmy piracy communities generally all ban direct linking. If there are no direct links, what is there to DMCA takedown request for?
Lemmy.world wants to put ads on their site. There isn't a good, rational explanation for this because all of the piracy communities already have fucking rules in place for this. Check the sidebar here. Rule 3!
Nothing for legitimate DMCA takedowns to be sent about. That won't stop DMCAs from being filed anyway, and those DMCAs will each need to be checked to see whether something slipped through the community's rules.
This basically means that even though the instance admins aren't mods on the piracy community, they will still end up being on the hook for doing moderation work on that community. It's understandable that some instance admins will say "nah, don't want to do that."
If that bothers you, switch to a different instance.
You can make a DMCA request for whatever you want. Even if it's BS the onus of proof falls on the instance not the DMCA sender. Large social media platforms like YouTube and Reddit have agreements with large copyright holders to deal with their complaints out of court but there is no way any Lemmy instance has that.
They're hosted in Finland. Is Finland required to follow US laws or respond to legal requests made under US laws? Pretty sure the answer is a resounding fucking NO.