PSA: the largest piracy community is blocked from lemmy.world

https://lemmy.world/post/3193108

lemmy.world blocked the largest piracy community - Lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/2881638 [https://sh.itjust.works/post/2881638] > The largest piracy community is hosted over at [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] > > lemmy.world has blocked it. It appears to have also blocked [email protected] [/c/[email protected]]. > > If this is a problem for you, I’d suggest migrating accounts using LASIM [https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim/releases] to an instance that doesn’t block it (such as lemm.ee [https://lemm.ee/signup]). > > edit: > > An official announcement has been made: > > > [https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/209c5f83-f6a7-40a8-b1b3-ffaab9b6b5c3.webp]

Might be worth remembering here that Lemmy instances, including .world are hosted by regular people. Not massive multinational companies worth billions who can engage the best legal talent around.

If Hollywood comes after a Lemmy instance, Holywood have a huge legal team and endless money. The Lemmy instance has some guy. They could quite literally destroy a persons life. With that in mind, I don’t blame any instance owners for erring on the side of taking a stance that won’t put them in the legal firing line.

Why would Hollywood come after them? It is not like people are sharing movies there. Posts there etremely mild.
Sony Music is currently coming after DNS provider Quad9 for resolving a piracy related domain, and they’ve succeeded in two courts so far. At this point I don’t think any copyright lawsuit is too stupid to happen.
Quad9 & Sony Music: German Injunction Update for July 2023 | Quad9

Quad9 has been part of a potentially precedent-setting legal case involving Sony Music Entertainment (Germany). The suit involves Sony’s demand that Quad9 block DNS resolution for our users for a specific domain, unrelated to Quad9, on which Sony asserts there are web-based links that lead to copyright-infringing content.

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Oh man I had forgotten about that thing, it’d be so awful if they end up never winning the case, I really like what Quad9 does and stads for