Earlier, after review, we blocked and removed several communities that were providing assistance to access copyrighted/pirated material, which is currently not allowed per Rule #1 of our Code of Conduct. The communities that were removed due to this decision were:

We took this action to protect lemmy.world, lemmy.world's users, and lemmy.world staff as the material posted in those communities could be problematic for us, because of potential legal issues around copyrighted material and services that provide access to or assistance in obtaining it.

This decision is about liability and does not mean we are otherwise hostile to any of these communities or their users. As the Lemmyverse grows and instances get big, precautions may happen. We will keep monitoring the situation closely, and if in the future we deem it safe, we would gladly reallow these communities.

The discussions that have happened in various threads on Lemmy make it very clear that removing the communites before we announced our intent to remove them is not the level of transparency the community expects, and that as stewards of this community we need to be extremely transparent before we do this again in the future as well as make sure that we get feedback around what the planned changes are, because lemmy.world is yours as much as it is ours.

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[–] hoodatninja@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Actually no you cannot host blatant piracy on your servers without violating several federal laws. Should they be liable because you want to put links to torrents all over their hosted server? That's ridiculous to expect of them.

You do realize there's a reason TPB is 1) not in the US and 2) gets sites shut down all the time right? They made it their mission to pick that fight and it's just constant whack a mole. Instance admins are basically doing a charity service for us all here. Their feelings on piracy are likely not even a factor - it's the threat of the feds coming for them.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Were there any links to torrents though?