The server and owner are in Europe. Though the anti piracy laws here are tough. Honestly can’t blame them.
There are other instances that don’t have this issue though.
Comment on PSA: the largest piracy community is blocked from lemmy.world
SteefLem@lemmy.world 1 year agoWhy tho. I can block an instance myself if i dont want to see it. This does not make sense.
dojan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
poVoq@slrpnk.net 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 providing this information.
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
They want to avoid lawsuit. Which are probably going to happen to dbzer0, I don’t know where they are hosted, but they might get in trouble once they reach a large userbase