Rod HiltonJun 17, 2023

I can't even wrap my head around this. Days ago the discussion on /r/piracy was about if it was worth continuing to protest, knowing that reddit likely hated the community and would actually prefer if a piracy-focused community left.

And now they are forcing other mods into control to force it back open.

A piracy subreddit. Devoted entirely to discussing illegal activity. Forced by the company to stay open, because they are that desperate for the traffic.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/14briu5/hey_rpiracy_reddit_admins_demodded_the_captain/

Hey /r/piracy. Reddit admins de-modded the captain and put a sword to the mod-team's necks to re-open. It seems they really demand valuable input from pirates. I look forward to you to taking this tacit Reddit endorsement of digital piracy to heart in the coming days!

I don't know how long I'll remain around. I seem to have caught the eye of Sauron and I'm not the top mod anymore. Hopefully the remaining mods...

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Show threadUli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)Jun 17, 2023
@rodhilton Hoping that ends up as a lawsuit against Reddit. Haven't they now technically made available pirated content?
Show threadRod HiltonJun 17, 2023

@uliwitness no one of the rules was always no direct links to pirated material. It was more discussion-focused, links to resources, etc.

Though that's one of the rules that's being lifted on lemmy, last I saw magnet links are allowed now.

Show threadvascorsd
@rodhilton @uliwitness will make it much easier for law enforcement to bully them to shutdown or persecute people there. The rules were actually good since it allowed for the existence of the community. Hosting and managing a community of such sensitive topic without the protection of a big corporate will be hard and will not survive long.
Jun 17, 2023 at 9:10pmWeb
Show threadMusserJun 17, 2023

@vascorsd @rodhilton @uliwitness Without good moderation tools on Reddit r/piracy most likely won’t be able to keep those rules there either.

I think we all can be pretty sure the music, gaming and movie industries biggest focus will be on Reddit with millions of users rather than a lemmy instance which isn’t even remotely close in user count.