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Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by satxdude@lemm.ee to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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This has happened once before and they reversed it. But they said this last time too:

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.

https://lemmy.world/post/3234363

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[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I guess the question is: if you host a public forum, are you liable for things posted on it, or on separate but linked forums?

I was thinking the same thing, as a legal question.

In the Fediverse, who's the source/target for the law to look at, the originator, or all the cached copies on other servers?

Edit: Basically, what this comment describes...

Then, who do you sue? The person downloading the product? The person hosting the product? The person providing a link to the hosted data? The person providing a platform for people to link things? The person who allows their platform to federate with another platform that does?

If we’re talking about P2P sharing, then in a way no one is hosting the data.