cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/2881638

The largest piracy community is hosted over at !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

lemmy.world has blocked it. It appears to have also blocked !piracy@lemmy.ml.

If this is a problem for you, I'd suggest migrating accounts using LASIM to an instance that doesn't block it (such as lemm.ee).

edit:

An official announcement has been made:

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[–] 22 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Unless those communities were sharing links to pirated content. If it was just talk about piracy and piracy news then I don't think that's a good reason to defederate.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    No illegal content

    Illegal in which country? Copyright infringement isn't illegal in my country for example, except for severe cases where you're profiting off of it. If we have to cater to all countries' laws we might as well ban music as well since it's illegal in Afghanistan.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Illegal in which country?

    I'm assuming Germany. As I understand, lemmy.world's admin is Dutch, the servers are located in Finland and they are leased from a German company. So if piracy is illegal in any of these countries, they could get into trouble. From what I know, Germany is quite strict, so I'm guessing that is the concern.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    There are many different laws with different countries. Don't forget that most (if not all) Fediverse instances are run by people in their free time with donations that just cover server costs. They aren't LLCs so there is always the concern about legal issues. Not sure if that is their motivation but could be part of it.

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