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It would appear lemmy.world has blocked this community (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[email protected] has also been blocked from lemmy.world.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Each instance owner is running these instances themselves, presumably out of the home, for free.

They could go after an instance owner, sure, but

There's no "but". They could fight a lawsuit, sure, but that's time consuming and expensive, and why bother? The piracy isn't coming from their instance, why should they have to fight a lawsuit for it? Piracy has its own instance, nothing has been defederated, they're just not hosting the content on their server to save themselves the hassle down the road. I can't imagine they'll be the only one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Sure, but doesn't it suck that it doesn't matter what the law says? Do you think it'll ever change if everyone rolls over and isolates undesirable communities (think beyond piracy to other things like adult content, or content from marginalised groups)