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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 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You seem to know your way around the law then, so please be the change you want to see in this world. Host a piracy instance and show everyone here that we were wrong and that the admins were just overreacting.

[-] pankuleczkapl@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

I can openly admit I am breaking the law for example by using torrents for piracy - and I seed as much as I can, though it in theory makes me liable. So yes, I am the change I want to see - piracy should be free to discuss everywhere

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

You can go further: host a piracy instance since you seem confident enough and prove us wrong. Why are you avoiding this part? I'm not the only one having suggested this to you.

[-] pankuleczkapl@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

And here you are (after fighting with docker for an hour) http://pankuleczka.ydns.eu/

[-] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I take back what I said then and I commend you for putting money where your mouth is and I hope you know what you're doing. That's something that the others are not willing to do but feel entitled to expect from LW because it's not their necks on the noose.

[-] HaywardT@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 months ago

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[-] pankuleczkapl@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Sure, if someone uses it then it's no problem for me. There are much bigger communities already out there though, so I see no reason to do that. I'll set it up right now to show you