Lemmy.world is hosted on a german Server and afaik run by german people. Hosting or even just linking to anything piracy related in germany would be suicide.
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CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 10 months agoSome things are clearly illegal and the admins should not be expected to take the heat for people who participate in those illegal activities.
But aren’t they protected under the same laws that other sites like Reddit are already protected under?
As far as being responsible for what their users post, last I heard that already had laws that protected the sites that hosted them so they were not responsible.
IANAL.
Metz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
samus12345@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Finnish server, main admin is Dutch.
Metz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My bad. I was sure i read somewhere they are hosted in germany. guess i was wrong. Still, hosting or linking to illegal stuff inside the EU is probably still a very bad idea. apart from it violating the ToS of the hoster (Hetzner).
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 10 months ago
For the individual, but not for the website hosting the comment (at least in the U.S.). IANAL.
DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Legal / illegal is the wrong term here because this type of thing is a civil matter.
If you were a volunteer admin and receive a cease and desist notice from an expensive law firm with an army of lawyers representing a client with infinite money, what would you do?
Would you pay your own lawyers out of your own pocket to stand up for your freedoms and rights, or would you just roll over and let someone else take up that fight? Would definitely be the latter for me.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Has it been ever a civil matter for any other company that hosts? I have not heard of any lawsuits of any kind for decades at this point.
As far as I know this is completely and absolutely settled, with no concern about future litigation possible.
IANAL.
DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
That may be true, but it’s easy to say that as a third party who is not receiving threats of litigation.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well I’m not saying it out of ignorance as a third party, I’ve actually read articles going all the way back to the time of BBS sites, where US laws protect those who host these sites from being responsible for the comments that people make that sit on their servers.
I don’t remember the exact law name right now (IANAL) but I know it exists, I’ve read articles about it before.