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Removal of piracy communities - Lemmy.world
alexandrite.appEarlier, 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: - [email protected]
[/c/[email protected]] - [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] -
[email protected] [/c/[email protected]] 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.
Absurd. None of these communities are even hosted on lemmy.world.
lemmy.world has more downtime than France’s administration anyway,. so at least we can still sail the high seas while they’re down.
This is the answer, period. They aren’t hosting infringing content, they’re barely even linking to discussion of it. Most of the piracy communities here on Lemmy all have rules about not directly linking to any infringing content.
It’s a fucking joke by people who think they’re doing something to protect their users but are actually just fucking around wasting time and energy.
they are, post and comments are mirrored on all federated instances.
Which are worth nothing in the case of a legal battle.
Which legal battle are you talking about? Lemmy has never been in court.
Who do you think the instance admins are? These are normal people, techies who know about running a server. But without a legal department.
They’ll not be eager to even risk a court case.
That’s not what was said. There’s never been a legal trial of the fediverse.
Any other court case regarding IP is irrelevant.
There’s no precedent for activitypub, and that’s the point.
That’s totally not a point. When the admin of an instance has no interest in even getting close to something that might get them into court, it’s totally fine that they take measures.
Whether you like that or not is just as irrelevant as whether another admin was in court already.