Earlier, after review, we blocked and removed several communities that were providing assistance to access copyrighted/pirated material, which is currently not allowed per Rule #1 of our Code of Conduct. The communities that were removed due to this decision were:

We took this action to protect lemmy.world, lemmy.world’s users, and lemmy.world staff as the material posted in those communities could be problematic for us, because of potential legal issues around copyrighted material and services that provide access to or assistance in obtaining it.

This decision is about liability and does not mean we are otherwise hostile to any of these communities or their users. As the Lemmyverse grows and instances get big, precautions may happen. We will keep monitoring the situation closely, and if in the future we deem it safe, we would gladly reallow these communities.

The discussions that have happened in various threads on Lemmy make it very clear that removing the communites before we announced our intent to remove them is not the level of transparency the community expects, and that as stewards of this community we need to be extremely transparent before we do this again in the future as well as make sure that we get feedback around what the planned changes are, because lemmy.world is yours as much as it is ours.

  • Noble Shift@lemmy.world
    9810·
    3 years ago

    This isn’t about what laws are on the books, or morals or ideologies, this about getting sued in court and ending up living in a gutter.

    The greed in Entertainment / Films / Television knows no bounds and will gladly throw a paltry million or two (dollars / Euros / etc) to bankrupt those they see as encroaching on their profits.

    Litigation is prohibitively expensive to survive let alone prevail against when it’s just a couple of regular ass people with regular ass jobs making regular ass pay. [spelling]

    • gowan@reddthat.com
      211·
      3 years ago

      Exactly, everyone complaining isn’t thinking about the person hosting this instance. They have to fight the battle if it comes.