• Hot Saucerman
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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?

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      Lemmy.world is hosted in the Netherlands, which are notorious for going after people just for “promoting” piracy. They don’t care if you’re actually breaking the law, they will just make your life hard. And that’s not something I’d want to deal with in addition to hosting a free service.

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        Interesting that they wouldn’t say as much themselves in any of their writings about why they made this decision.

        EDIT: Turns out its not true. No Shit, Sherlock.