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As you may know, Lemmy.world has decided to ban any communities that deal with the subjects of piracy. Considering that this sub might be considered piracy-adjacent, I’d like to make it clear that discussing the subject directly is not allowed, nor is requesting/offering Plex shares in posts or comments.
This is a community for discussing Plex products, serivices, add-ons, etc. and getting adivce and support or those apps/services. It’s not a place to discuss piracy. I understand this is a fine line to walk and requires a certain amount of compartmentalization in our discussions, but it’s what keeps our discussions from becoming legally problematic (depending on your jurisdiction) for our instance hosts and keeps our community federated with and visible to as many users as possible!
Thanks, Everyone!
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EDIT: it should be noted that discussions that may involve piracy ARE PERMITTED (as it pertains to Plex and its add-ons) in our Matrix community chats (linked above and in the sidebar), as they’re not Lemmy-related and aren’t going to get this community in trouble here. However, all other rules still apply.
Fucking stupid decisions from lemmy world admins, time to make an account elsewhere it seems. Might just go to dbzeros instance
Beauty of lemmy is you can still enjoy .world and any other instance no matter that particular instances policies
eh… lemmy.world is based in the US, so they’re liable for anything that gets federated there, as that stuff is not technically hosted on their servers. it’s not because they object to it, it’s just protecting themselves from dumb laws.
edit: oops, not hosted in the US ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They are not. They are hosted by a German company, with servers in Finland. By a Dutch dude.
oops, my bad!
So has Reddit and piracy has been one of the biggest subs since the start of the site.
reddit also has the money to pay for lawyers to defend itself from frivolous legal bullshit (and non-frivolous legal threats). lemmy instance admins don’t. I don’t blame them for playing it safe if their local laws make their lives difficult.
there are plenty of other instances to choose from.
Reddit has a history of not giving a shit about its subreddits until it harms advertising/revenue
Prime Example: Pedo subs until they became a national news story.
They were fairly strict on moderating any direct links and such
yeah. it was always a game of euphemisms and such there. how strict the enforcement was was always a game of pushing boundaries, getting snapped back by the admins, waves of bans and such, then more boundary-pushing. that went on for years.
If it was any other regular website like reddit it would just get completely shut down. Like others have said, this is the strength of federation.
Literally they are not. DMCA Safe Harbor provisions specifically make them not liable for content posted by others until it is brought to their attention by a rights holder or some regulatory agency.
here’s the thing about that: it takes going to court to argue that and hoping you get a favorable ruling.
and that’s very, very expensive and you could be shut down via injunction until that happens, which could take years.
and even if the lemmy.world admin could afford hundred of thousands or millions in legal fees to win a case against the RIAA and/or MPAA, why would they want to risk it?