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lemmy.world blocked the largest piracy community in all of lemmy (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 3 years ago* by to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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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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[–] -2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I don't understand, what data from other instances is cached, exactly?

And usenet has existed since before the Internet itself, has been used for piracy almost as long, and yet I don't see many concerns there.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    If Alice, a user of lemmy server A, subscribes to a piracy community on server B, all content of that piracy community will be pulled to, cached on, and served to Alice through their home instance, server A.

    All it takes is a single user subscribing to a community from another federated server to pull that entire community's data into their home instance. It's bad when it's a copyright violation risk. It's massively scary when it could happen with something like child porn, because now whoever is running the home server is storing and distributing it unknowingly.

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