• poVoq
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    1 year ago

    Because community content is cached on other instances, so you can find all the content from these piracy communities under the lemmy.world domain as well and this is likely to be interpreted by law enforcement / a judge as hosting this content, which can get the server admins into legal trouble depending on the jurisdiction.

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      1 year ago

      IIRC, lemmy.world is hosted in the US, making them liable under US laws.

      edit: IR incorrectly ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      • poVoq
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        151 year ago

        They are actually hosted in Finland, but some of the admins are US based and can thus also get into legal trouble. Not sure about the legal situation in Finland.