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Comment on PSA: the largest piracy community is blocked from lemmy.world

Might be worth remembering here that Lemmy instances, including .world are hosted by regular people. Not massive multinational companies worth billions who can engage the best legal talent around.

If Hollywood comes after a Lemmy instance, Holywood have a huge legal team and endless money. The Lemmy instance has some guy. They could quite literally destroy a persons life. With that in mind, I don’t blame any instance owners for erring on the side of taking a stance that won’t put them in the legal firing line.

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traveler@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Exactly, he’s protecting himself.

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- CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Protecting himself from what? The community hosts literally zero pirated content.
  
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  - traveler@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    But it links to it, which is equally as bad. In your logic thepiratebay would never have any problems with law enforcement because they technically don’t host any of the pirated content, just link to it.
    
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    CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Pirate Bay shouldn’t, but linking to torrents can at least give megacorps some kind of backwards excuse to come after them.
    
    The pirating communities here don’t link to anything. It’s literally against their rules to do so. It’s solely for discussion.
    
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didntwemeetin2007@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m confused, Are they actually hosting anything illegal?

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- SRo@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  No. .world is just afraid of everything. Better they shut down their instance.
  
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- leraje@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Not sa far as I know.
  
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moitoi@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
For me, it looks like people are mad at the US defaultism of the decision.

I understand why. It makes for part of the users no sense as they are protected by the law. It looks like a US “shitshow”. Countries are protecting the IP of the person, making it nearly impossible to pursue someone. Others have law allowing the use and the copy of copyrighted material for educational purposes. Some allow the download of copyrighted material.

It’s the same with GDPR. Meta must comply. There is no exception because US defaultism.

And we can understand this point of view too. It’s not binary as the US people think it is. It’s more mixed depending of the country.

Generally, outside of this drama, on the internet, people are reclaiming they right and don’t want the US “example” anymore. They want the internet following their local laws like the GDPR for Europeans. They have the right to claim it. Thanks to GDPR, mandatory usb-c, battery replacement and others laws in Europe and outside, the consciences of are awakened that the US is not the model to follow in terms of law on the internet and technologies.

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FinallyDebunked@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
lemmy.world hosts in Finland hence they don’t probably live in us

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