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Official Statement from Lemmy.world admin about community removal (alexandrite.app)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Pretty sure all the piracy communities I've seen have rules about not directly linking to any infringing content. Mainly its piracy discussions.

Here is a whole ass post from the admin of this instance about not directly linking: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/18438

This post is linked under the main rules of this community, Rule 3. Don't request of link to specific pirated titles.

Meaning this is a joke of a line of reasoning, you're not "protecting" anyone by limiting discussion.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah but the piracy subreddit also had those rules and various companies still sent notices to reddit. Sure they were bullshit, but copyright law puts the burden of proof on the alleged infringers not the copyright holders.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Someone here claimed they were in the Netherlands, turns out that's not true they're hosted in Finland.

I didn't know the USA's DMCA applied to the country of Finland. Reddit still got them because they're a fucking US company based in the fucking US.

This shit is like people not understanding that The Pirate Bay didn't have to follow US laws back in the day. Infuriatingly fucking dumb.

[–] samus12345 4 points 1 year ago

Ruud, the main admin, is in the Netherlands, the server is in Finland.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Are you forgetting when the FBI still came after Pirate bay? And that the founders would have been arrested had they ever entered the US or any country with an extradition treaty?