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.
Time to host my own instance. I disagree with this move.
I’ve been pirating since the 90s and I totally understand why they would do this and agree with it 100%
The benefit of experience I suppose
I used to run bbs’s, I was in the pirate scene 2 decades ago and created nfo files for pirate groups as an ASCII artist. So I have plenty of affinity for the scene.
We are moving to Digital Ocean soon, a US based hosting company. This means that we have to follow US based dmca law even if the servers are hosted in Europe. And we know for a fact that this could become problematic.
How do we know? Because the guy who wrote digital oceans’s dmca policy recently joined the LW team.
People downvoting and complainong in the comments have it easy. It’s not their livelihood on the line.
Ditto. I’m an avid pirate (because it’s the only way to get most of the things I pirate here!), have been doing it for decades, and fully support lemmy.world shutting down the piracy discussion groups.
That’s your prerogative and the upside of the fediverse, as a whole.
The downside is that you may be held legally liable for something you completely had no part, or even knowledge, of simply because your federation has caused content to propagate to your instance. Now it’s on your instance, you’re hosting it and you’re potentially liable.
That’s the beauty of lemmy. Good luck
thepiratebay.world?