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Unremoval of Piracy Communities (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by lwadmin@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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Hello World!

As we've all known and talked about quite a lot, we previously blocked several piracy-focused communities. These communities, as announced, were:

!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com,
!steamdeckpirates@lemmy.dbzer0.com,
!piracy@lemmy.ml, and their local counterparts as follow up actions.

In our removal announcement, we stated that we will continue to look into this more in detail, and re-allow these communities if and when we deem it safe. It was a solid concern at the time, because we were already receiving takedown requests as well as constant attacks, and didn't want to put our volunteer team at risk. We had zero measures in place, and the tools we had were insufficient to deal with anything at scale.

Well, after back and forth with some very cool people, and starting to have proper measures as well as tooling to protect ourselves, we decided it's time to welcome these communities back again. Long live the IT nerds!

We know it's been a rough ride with everything, and we'd like to thank every one of you who were understanding of us, and stayed with us all the way. Please know that as users, you are what makes this platform what it is, and damned we be if we ever forget it.

With love, and as always, stay safe in the high seas!

Lemmy.world Team

❤️

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[+] jimbo@lemmy.world -7 points 1 year ago

Intellectual property is still property, and the value of that property pretty much depends on the ability to control the distribution of copies of that property. It's not a tough argument to make that piracy does indeed take something of value from a content creator.

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Intellectual property is still property, and the value of that property pretty much depends on the ability to control the distribution of copies of that property.

When you phrase it that way you show that it's artificial value based on their ability to bully and strongarm others into submission. Which is exactly what massive corporations do, sometimes even going the extra mile even though they know they won't get money out of it (Nintendo does this exact thing).

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Intellectual property is a capitalist invention so that multigorillian dollar corporations can own three chords of a song and then sue mothers for having it play in the background and claim to own happy birthday so they can make gorillians more when they know full well they don't.

The most fucked up thing is that it's basically necessary to prevent said multigorillian dollar corporations from just claiming random starving artist's work as their own, but believe me they sure as hell do try. It's just morally reprehensible shit all the way down.

[-] dx1@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I consider all property to be my property so you're depriving me of something when you have your own property. I will be notifying my lawyers about this situation.