I don’t understand why everyone is so shocked they did it. Hosting information on pirating stuff is a lightning rod for lawsuits and Lemmy.world is large enough to actually noticed.
I’m only surprised it took them that long to block it.
Comment on PSA: the largest piracy community is blocked from lemmy.world
dinguscod@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I love all the salty comments about having to move. Its piracy, it will always be removed if it becomes too popular. This is how it has always been and always will be. No one is obligated to feed you free shit without any effort on your part. They take one place down and you move on. Either get used to it or start paying for services.
DharkStare@lemmy.world 10 months ago
bdiddy@lemmy.one 10 months ago
yeah like… WTF you gonna try to do this on a major social media site… how stupid is that shit… Go to IRC, fools.
dinguscod@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I doubt the majority of people even know what IRC is. A lot of people just want free shit without having to do any work.
1ird@notyour.rodeo 10 months ago
BBS to IRC to P2P to torrent with all manner of shady websites and other crap thrown in. That’s just in my Internet life from 2002. I never used BBS but I was aware of them.
AstralWeekends@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Exactly. If you’re someone who engages in piracy, you should be quite used to putting in this type of effort.
SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 10 months ago
Also surprised to read the whining about the whining.
“Without any effort on your part”
Yeah you’re right, as a world citizen we all get automatically created accounts for all Lemmy instances /s
dinguscod@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Oh nooooooooo I had to make an account on new instance. Woeeeee is me. Here you forgot your reeeeeeeee.
SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 10 months ago
You said no effort whatsoever you whiny prick
dinguscod@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, mommy I had to make a new account on a new instances. My precious seconds mommy, more tendiesssss reeeeeee
dingus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Why does no one understand that the admins don’t want the instance to be shut down and they don’t want to be arrested???
I am very pro-piracy, but I would never host a piracy community because I don’t want to be freaking jailed. Governments view those that host piracy and piracy communities much more harshly than random participants.
Is everyone on this website 12 years old and not understanding of real world consequences???
ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Fucking amen. It sucks but it’s a fact of life. LW is covering their asses like any of us would
r1veRRR@feddit.de 10 months ago
Because from everything I’ve seen, those communities did not do ANYTHING illegal. They talked about software that can be used that way, but if we go by that measure, discussing any Fediverse software is illegal, because you could use that to host illegal content.
dingus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No, they haven’t done anything illegal yet. But the key word is “yet” and the admins obviously don’t want to risk it.
If it was your ass on the line for potential prison time, I’m sure you’d have a different opinion.
r1veRRR@feddit.de 10 months ago
But that’s true of literally every single community. Posting copyrighted images in a pics community, copyrighted music in a little video/gif, a nazi denying the holocaust (illegal in Germany) in one little comment a hundred comments in…
Who do you think is more likely to overstep? A community very well aware of the risks and the scrutiny they are under, full of people that are themselves aware of the risks, or some rando on some random community?
Obviously, they are allowed to ban or not ban whatever they want, but I just think it’s a very short sighted, quickfire decision.
Reliant1087@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Why stop there, why not defedrate from all NSFW communities because they could post questionable content in the future?
SRo@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
They just should shut down their instance if they can’t run it without defederation excessively, blocking communities and even using a word filter.